I've never understood this at all. Outside of public school, I've only encountered one other similar environment--my first retail job after high school.
After that, social interactions have been nothing at all like what school prepared me for.
Worse still, school un-prepairs you from healthy interactions. You grow all kinds of needles, you become wary of people and insecure. It takes literally years of your life to overcome that. Sometimes forever.
After that, social interactions have been nothing at all like what school prepared me for.