> I can’t help but recall Harrison Bergeron.

That old SF story seems to come up rather often today. I read it decades ago, and never saw the 1995 made-for-TV movie.[1] For decades it was forgotten.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron_(film)

It was taught in my middle school English class in the Bay Area in the 2000s, but they also utilized tracking.