One special condition in my Bob Knight example is that the student-athlete
gets recruited by a variety of coaches and makes a choice to play for
Knight (or whoever), presumably to play in his highly demanding, autocratic
system. That sort of choice is not so easily available under most public
school teaching/learning arrangements, though most systems I know of allow
for a transfer out of an inappropriate classroom (though an athlete often
has to move to a different district to change coaches).
Peter