What kind of cock-a-manie reasoning is this? Is the honors program a secret? Teachers identify those students who have the capability to handle more advanced courses and the kids usually don't have to be "pushed". For the trigger-happy amongst you, I'm ready.
Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma -- Beelzebub, what a useful word! -- by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT.-- C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Proposes a Toast.