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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You present no downsides. No increased financial cost. No opportunity cost to the other 90%. Under those (unrealistic) circumstances, why would anybody say no? That top 10% might cure cancer or Alzheimers with the button and not without. Realistically gifted education does come with opportunity costs, so it's harder to say for sure then, isn't it? A bus to TJ is a bus that doesn't go somewhere else. A teacher who only teaches gifted math in 3rd grade is one who isn't teaching everyone else.[/quote] I'm the OP, and you raise good points all around. If there is no downside, why not? Right? But if you look at the response above mine, you'll see that a lot of people would refuse because the top 10% don't "need help". Pressing the button would necessarily increase the "achievement gap" even though it isn't actually making anyone worse off. And for a lot of people out there, that's the only reason they need no to press the button. [/quote]
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