[Empire_of_Liberty]

America had better pray that some of its best children reach their full potential, somehow.

The Bell curve is a cold, hard reality. Cutting off the upper end just so that some deranged “educators” can poke at healing sores condemns everyone to live with less than even the average.

[cgbg]

Home schooling will allow gifted students to go as far as their talents will take them.

Sending a gifted child to a public school in CA is child abuse.

[nicollo]

America had better pray that some of its best children reach their full potential, somehow.

The worst part of ignoring this reality is that the hyper-focus on "equity" results in the loss of higher-performing minority kids who are ignored in the demand for equal outcomes. Granted there are fewer high-IQ, higher-performing students, in absolute and proportional numbers, among latins and blacks, but to lose the one's who are at the higher-end of the bell curve is tragic.

See Jonathan Plucker at Johns Hopkins School of Education He has identified that that black and latin high performance drops from 4th grade to 8th grade, whereas white and asian high-level performance does not, and the reason for it is not student ability but different curricula: i.e., the black and latin -dominant schools dumb down expectations by 8th grade whereas the white and asian -dominant schools maintain focus on high achievement.