It’s egalitarian notion - that by taking gifted kids out of regular classes they are not letting the other kids learn from them. That it hurts everyone else basically.
Of course the gifted kids are usually the class clowns distracting everybody cause they’re bored. Not to mention them getting hated for screwing up the curve.
“It’s egalitarian notion - that by taking gifted kids out of regular classes they are not letting the other kids learn from them. That it hurts everyone else basically.”
My older son has two life long friends. One was/is gifted like our son, and the other is a hard working average guy.
The hard working average joe, admits that our son and the other gifted guy enabled him to get by in high school and 2 years of local college with his friends a phone call away. He is a hard hat type of guy and makes a good living as a foreman in construction jobs.
Your posting above re hurting everyone is right on target now and decades ago