Probably. Think I've heard of some students at Xavier's that had kind of, well I don't want to say useless, but pretty mundane powers. Never met any of them personally though, so I can't confirm it completely.
Total agreement there. The funny thing back home is that nobody persecuted The Avengers, but mutants were somehow bad because instead of getting powers from a super soldier program or a robot suit, we were born with them. I don't get it, and I don't think I ever will.