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Who considers teasing appropriate? I would argue it has gone way too far to the other end with kids forced to sits through hours of programs on why teasing is bad and wrong and harmful to self esteem.
Heck, even when I was in school this was already starting with whole assemblies talking about the horrors of being mean to each other. We all just thought the adults were being awfully stupid and continued calling each other names and teasing anybody we didn't like. Posters adorned the school striving for zero put-downs and once a week in home room (in middle school) we had to write an anonymous note where we said something nice about another person in that room and that note would be given to them. These were called "warm fuzzies." We though them equally stupid and the nice things we ended up writing were things like "It is nice that you're not dead" and "You're less stupid than the teacher."
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