I see these articles, and what troubles me is that they assert schools are a certain way without backing it up. People love to complain how spoiled kids are the

I see these articles, and what troubles me is that they assert schools are a certain way without backing it up. People love to complain how spoiled kids are these days, but how much truth are in those claims? My education was certainly like the article's Mr. K, but my schools were chronically low performing. Specifcally, -Are schools really eschewing rote memorization? -Are schools really less "strict" than before? Does a teacher really have less control of their classroom than today? -Are helicopter parents really more of thing today than in the past? -Are kids really not being taught they can fail a class? I've yet to see any evidence cited for the above assertions, but I do hear them constantly being repeated.