Like so many things including semi-automatic weapons and the color purple, norms are not in and of themselves, bad. In science, for example, they are essential. A population of human beings cannot. Few of us were good at everything as children and most of us were good at something. If the something we were good at happened to be, according to educators norm-al, then we were rewarded and allowed to have a good opinion of ourselves.
Schools continue to be pretty orthodox in their views of what legitimately can be called education.
Testing, for example, will become something else. It will evolve into less judgmental and normative forms. Eventually, I suspect, schools will profile instead of test students, looking for their difference rather than seeking to subsume those differences under a norm. Likewise we will reveal in our educational programs our greater understanding and appreciation of difference. When we seek from and for our children the richness of difference and the power of synergy rather the the illusive comfort of normality when we make schools and curricula that speak to all the counties of the brain with equal respect then we will have put norms, at least as they affect the young, properly in a hierarchy under difference.