The shaming has gone on for a long time. In the 5thgrade ( 1960 ) i told my Rebbe that i had davened half of shachris with full kavanah, seeking chizuk. What happened instead was that he brought me to the front of the class and publicly ridiculed me for thinking i had accomplished anything. From then on i went thru the motions. In high school, boys asked halachic questions only to be yelled at, called schutzpanick and worse. By the time freshman year ended they stopped asking and caring by graduation were no longer frum.
Fast forward 35 years; my 7 year old great nephew wasbeing beaten up by his rebbe because he was dozing off at the end of a very long day. He began to hate learning because he associated it with the beatings. The beatings stopped when my neice told the rosh yeshiva that she would go to the precinct and swear out a complaint and have the rebbe arrested and sue the rosh yeshiva.
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