The article you quoted came from Australia, which has a strong social stigma that enforces egalitarianism in all things, with the exception of sports.
Responses to the instrument revealed that teachers harbored subconscious negative feelings toward academically gifted students and were suspicious of their precocity, and that the negative feelings focused on students' superior articulation and nonconformist socializing.
Some people have attempted to formulate a form of pure egalitarianism. There is not much room in it for the high performing non-conformist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justiceand to manufacture equality of outcome in cases where incidental inequalities appear in a procedurally just system
And we end up with something quite old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarginalizationMarginalization at the individual level results in an individual's exclusion from meaningful participation in society.
But human nature is what it is. Hostility in the leadership then becomes embedded in the social structure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experimentIn turn, many of the prisoners developed passive attitudes and accepted physical abuse, and, at the request of the guards, readily inflicted punishment on other prisoners who attempted to stop it.
Fortunately this can be short circuited in many cases by standing up for others.
Zimbardo aborted the experiment early when Christina Maslach, a graduate student ... objected to the appalling conditions
In today's society, if you are not satisfied, then another form of standing up, is a well-maintained negative review on a public website.
