"Here's an idea: Wrap every child under the age of 18 in cotton batting and continually feed them Valium. That way except for addiction to Valium no harm can come to them. Sheesh! This world had gone completely INSANE !! I'm sick, sick, sick of hearing nonsense like this!"
Funny you should mention that: John Brunner, himself a liberal, wrote a science fiction novel, The Shockwave Rider, about a world where that was done. It's one of the books that got me interested in computers, way back when. (It was published in 1975)
It's already being done. The batting is "outcome based education" and the Valium is being subbed under the name "Ritalin".