My point was that our lottery insures that there will always be a few children in the regular classes who are more intelligent than the children in the "gifted and talented" classes.Maybe if normal children were as disciplined and as educated as they once were public schools would not squander so many resources.
My point is that parents of GT children should have the choice to put their kids in GT classes, if they want to.
If they don't, they don't have to. It's a personal decision.
My husband and I both grew up gifted at a time when GT classes didn't exist (as did most of us). I lived in a poorer state, and the lack of resources held me back. My husband lived in a richer state, where they had accellerated learning programs.
When it came time to make the choice for our own children, we chose to put them in the exclusive GT program. The only classes they shared with non-GT kids were gym, art, choir, theater, stuff like that, staring in high school. There are almost zero behavioral problems with GT kids. They were surprised, and repelled, by bad behavior.
In college, again, these behavioral problems in the general population can be avoided, and also in employment.
Maybe they grew up in an ivory tower, but I don't think that's a bad thing. No gangs, no drugs, no theft, no assaults, no cursing the teacher, etc. in GT classes.