Top tier kids have been ignored for years. Gifted Talented classes do not address the needs of these kids to be challenged.
Isn’t part of this related to the fact that there’s always more room for improvement at the bottom?
This is not a bad result, and fully to be expected.
The best that can be hoped for is that public schools will tend to the needs of the masses. The notion that they would provide high-level instruction to the particularly talented is just not realistic.
If a parent has a child who has special needs because he is particularly advanced, it is up to the parent to satisfy those needs, not the taxpayer.
Of course, my solution is to just blow the whole system up and make all parents responsible for the education of their own children... But what do I know?
Perhaps the “top tier” students need teachers who are smarter than the students.....
Unfortunately -— recent experience is showing that too many “teachers” thought the “Leave no child behind”, meant “Leave no child’s behind alone”.
The education of our brightest children is a responsibility of the family.
If you wait for the government school to do it you will be sadly disappointed.
As I see it, this is simply another effort to undo the NCLB.
The teachers HATE that they are tested and the results go home to the parents. The teachers HATE that their schools are rated and the results to home to the parents.