Which seems really weird to me - education isn't a competition it's a collaboration with the teacher and the other students.

This mindset seems harmful to me as I see it playing out with my kids "teacher X set this homework and will tell me off if I don't do it" rather than "teacher X set this homework and I'll not understand the subject as well if I don't do it". The kids think the homework is "for the teacher" rather than for them.

Education is supposed to be an opportunity not a sentence or conflict, isn't it?