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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Throwing resources at low performers absolutely will lift them up. And if your kid is really a high performers, they will be a high performer with or without resources. [/quote]
We don't have an infinite amount of resources though.    And why should high performers be ignored? Making the magnets all regional is ignoring the very high performers.

FWIW, I grew up lower income and went to an awful school. [/quote]

+100

The state should really invest the most in the top quartile in order promote excellence and achievement to benefit our society overall.

Any honest teacher will tell you that the differences intellectual capacity are significant and important. Some kids work hard and have good personalities but are never going to be acing organic chemistry or advanced calculus. And that is OK. There are many low-skilled jobs that  are essential to our society and confer value and dignity to those who perform them. [/quote]

There are many high-skill jobs that don't need organic chemistry or advanced calculus, and can be performed students who'd rather take a class on car mechanics than quantum mechanics. [/quote]

That's why organic chemistry or discrete math are only needed by a very small amount of students who can manage the challenge and really hope to be the top of their major to push the boundary of human knowledge and bring large benefit to human-beings. The top 10% students in HSs won't need these classes, hence the justification for the existing county-wide program to serve a very small community. Regional programs can serve the top 10% students needs by providing MVC, linear algebra, Physics C, etc. that are more basic college-level courses. [/quote]

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