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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]@12:00 There just aren't enough students functioning at the level you describe to merit an allocation of funds to meet their ostensible need for segregated classes.  If an advanced  class isn't good enough for them (which is what an AP class is), then too bad.

FYI, I don't think placing 110 IQ kids in the same class with 125-140+ IQ kids is a bad thing, as long as the 110 kids can make grade.  Frankly, the super-efficient-while-performing kids can benefit from classes with kids who have to work hard to get the same grade.  The empathy learned (assuming they're capable of learning empathy) will help them to get along later in life.[/quote]

Well, it all depends on how many kids there are I guess.  If you have 100 students to be divided into 5 classes of 20, it makes way more sense to me to have the top 20% in one class that can move faster, whatever the IQ break point might be, and that does not seem to be a poor use of the relatively modest funds needed to reorganize in this manner.  But I sense you disagree with even that, although you are mostly talking about more extreme examples.  I'm certainly not arguing that a 150 IQ kid should be provided one-on-one tutorials by the public schools.    [/quote]

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