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[quote=Anonymous]While there are those with more or less innately high Math ability, and while some of these will noodle through some questions without exposure, there are others for whom a lack of exposure, say, to the vocabulary of Math, would make it difficult to have that ability demonstrated on what is largely an exposure-based assessment.

Outside supplememtation for some of these is not the problem.  Supplementation for some who may not have that high level of innate ability also is not the problem.  (That is, in each case, as long as it isn't [i]forced[/i] upon a child.)

Somewhat artificial scarcity, especially in MS & HS, of programs relative to the combined population demonstrating need via achievement and/or ability, with selection criteria having some dependency on prior placement, combined with inadequate paradigms for identification of those with that ability, combined then with differential family ability to achieve supplementation -- now [i]that's[/i] a problem.[/quote]

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