1) Grinding is not a sign of maturity, it's a sign of (a) weak dancing skill, and/or (b) focus on sexual bonding (as opposed to emotional bonding--for example due to lack of face-to-face contact and conversation during grinding). Parents and teachers are uncomfortable with it because they have learned that emotional relationships are the important and hard ones, and grinding encourages students to focus on physical/sexual relationships instead of emotional ones. That grinding trains this behavior in very young students is just as troubling as that it doesn't help older students unlearn these unhealthy (not immoral) relationship patterns. Parents in other schools aren't as involved as at Uni (a BAD thing), and the standards of student behavior are not as high. That's why grinding is a bigger issue at Uni than at most other schools.
2) Uni students of all ages tend to lack emotional maturity, due to their strong academic focus and hard-won self-righteousness. But the variance of maturity level among people of the same age seems to me to be much larger than the variance among ages. I challenge you to find a strong correlation between emotional maturity and age within a grade level, sophomore or higher, at Uni.
3) Interacting productively with people that have different emotional, intellectual, and social maturity levels is a critical skill. Uni students learn that skill mostly during the subfreshman and freshman years, as students begin to normalize their maturity curves. Other schools don't teach it at all, instead indirectly encouraging students to haze those less mature. Is that what you're hoping Uni will emulate?
So many misconceptions, so little time
1) Grinding is not a sign of maturity, it's a sign of (a) weak dancing skill, and/or (b) focus on sexual bonding (as opposed to emotional bonding--for example due to lack of face-to-face contact and conversation during grinding). Parents and teachers are uncomfortable with it because they have learned that emotional relationships are the important and hard ones, and grinding encourages students to focus on physical/sexual relationships instead of emotional ones. That grinding trains this behavior in very young students is just as troubling as that it doesn't help older students unlearn these unhealthy (not immoral) relationship patterns. Parents in other schools aren't as involved as at Uni (a BAD thing), and the standards of student behavior are not as high. That's why grinding is a bigger issue at Uni than at most other schools.
2) Uni students of all ages tend to lack emotional maturity, due to their strong academic focus and hard-won self-righteousness. But the variance of maturity level among people of the same age seems to me to be much larger than the variance among ages. I challenge you to find a strong correlation between emotional maturity and age within a grade level, sophomore or higher, at Uni.
3) Interacting productively with people that have different emotional, intellectual, and social maturity levels is a critical skill. Uni students learn that skill mostly during the subfreshman and freshman years, as students begin to normalize their maturity curves. Other schools don't teach it at all, instead indirectly encouraging students to haze those less mature. Is that what you're hoping Uni will emulate?