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What concerns me is that giving more resources to my kid, who is high on your "levels" and very resourceful on his own, means taking it away from other kids. I don't think anybody here wants to acknowledge this. One PP even tried to argue that highly gifted kids deserve more resources because they are the next Gates and Zuckerbergs.  As if the high IQ kids in the class are somehow more "deserving" than the kids who will go on to be mid-level managers. Yes, I agree with the idea that every kid deserves a good education, but the reality is that more teacher time for a tiny minority means less teacher time for everybody [/quote]

First, I don't think it is a zero sum game, especially in wealthy private schools.  You've got the kids breaking up into groups anyway; why not cluster them by ability when they do?  At the extreme end: you have 2 or three or more classrooms in each grade, you could group those classes by ability or shake them up for each subject.

Second, as to who deserves teacher time - I don't begrudge at all the time devoted to the child struggling to learn to read, struggling to understand fractions, etc. A single kid might take up an hour or more of resource teacher time every day.  The teacher spends extra time with the kid who is the behavioral problem; I understand that.  Please don't begrudge the 4-5 kids who get pulled out with a resource teacher to get what they need to have the same experience as the average kid.

Finally, the PP wasn't arguing that gifted kids deserved more resources because they were smart; she/he was arguing that it was silly to argue that society would be better served by dumbing everyone down rather than letting kids move at an appropriate pace. 
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