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If a student is grades ahead then he isn't learning anything and is just sitting in class twiddling his thumbs, wasting his time, and schools little more than a glorified daycare. [/quote]

I do not know of any teachers in any school that would let that happen.  If that is what your child needs, then he must require hand feeding.

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Are you really that obtuse?

No child "needs" to be sitting in class twiddling thumbs and wasting time, but it does in fact happen a LOT, when kids are advanced learners who are bored to tears are going over material that they've already mastered.  That's a child who needs to continue to be challenged in class, but teachers typically do not have the bandwidth to deal with the advanced learners, so those students just get ignored.

What they NEED is to be taught at an appropriately challenging level.  They NEED an appropriate education.  Being taught at a level several grades below them, and wasting their time is NOT appropriate education - yet that's precisely what your status quo would entail.[/quote]

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