I think that’s true to an extent but also I have a very vivid memory of my teenage sibling who was in the first year of a medical degree so by no means stupid, calling me at 4am because they had lost their wallet and phone and the whole situation had plunged them an emotional crisis and paralysis where they did not know what to do about it. They could have solved it pretty easily by themselves but the lack of experience meant they needed someone else to walk them through some fairly obvious steps that ultimately resulted in getting both back perfectly fine. This was an initiative problem and it wasn’t a situation where there was any hierarchy to scare them out of acting, they just paralysed themselves entirely by the fact they had not experienced the situation before.

I think even without schools doing this, and even without authority situations, we would still run into initiative problems until they’ve had enough experience with weird situations to realise they can work their way through them independently.