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[quote=Anonymous]The true question is how does the public school system teaches kids that are in the top 10-20% of intellectual ability? We have no issue providing differentiated schooling for the bottom 10% through special education/learning disability programs, but somehow for some people doing the same for the top students seems unfair.

What is being proposed? One option is to let them stay in a regular class, and the teacher will figure it out. Few people would be ok with the same approach for special Ed.

The reality is that good education is personalized and tailored to the student needs, abilities, strengths and weaknesses. You simply can’t do that in the conveyor belt education system that is same for all from k to 12. So we need to figure out how to do this in a way that benefits society the most.

Grouping by ability (and I realize that it’s not always the case) really works, ands school districts that went into the opposite direction of detracting are a complete disaster, see all stories about SF schools, where you can only take a different track in junior year of high school. The district lost 50% of white student enrollment in kindergarten this year.

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