Indeed!
We're just lucky they haven't figured out a way to protect the short, fat and ugly kids from the tall, slender and pretty kids.
Of course, they did figure out how to deal with the smart kids: They dumb-down the entire student population. The dumb kids are still dumb, but they don't stick out any more.
In a way they have. They have promoted promiscuity through a sex education which is more of a how-to manual that a this-is-what-it -is education. They have lowered our moral values to the point that all are equally squalid. To be an achiever, a true achiever rather than one given A's just for being there, and one of high standards and moral values, is much, much more difficult than it used to be. Those who make it are true heroes whether the are short and fat or trim and attractive. They, the powers that be, aren't so concerned with looks as they are with mandating mediocrity at all meaningful levels.
They have figured out a way, one of my close friends has a younger brother in school, in gym class, the teacher breaks up the kids to do excersises, no sports that involve competition, and they're not allowed to act or do anything competitive if they have free time, plus no score or personal score keeping. No taunting, or even congrats, since congratualting a teamate on anything leaves people out. Same school also doesn't do dances or social activities because certain kids may get the feelings hurt, etc. Public school in my neighborhood.