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1. Who cares? This is not an argument for or against this. It's totally inappropriate to decide the best way to educate a child based on your personal theorie

1. Who cares? This is not an argument for or against this. It's totally inappropriate to decide the best way to educate a child based on your personal theories about how wealth should be distributed, and your untested wild ass guess about what effect some educational policy would have on that theory. 2. You get better teachers and a stimulating environment that is challenging. - Small classes: maybe, it's not necessary at all. - better curriculum: well, yes, smarter kids can cover a topic more quickly and in more depth. The less smart kids can't keep up, so they have to skim less deeply and/or cover less material. - more practical: ??? did you feel like you needed 3 bullets or something? You should have separate schools because there aren't enough gifted kids in one regular school to even fill one class. This comes directly from the definition of gifted, if gifted is say the top 1% of students, a large high-school with 1500 kids would only have 15 of them across 4 grades. You have to do something like a magnet school to have enough kids at the same level in the same room for it to work at all.

tabeth 10y ago
I won't respond to the first point. If you're seriously asking "who cares" about income inequality then I don't think discourse will be productive. In any case, you didn't seem to refute my main point that gifted schools would also benefit regular students.
- justin_vanw 10y ago
  Ok, I will bet that you don't even believe that there are intelligence differences between people, right? Every person is equally capable and it all comes down to whether you give them enough opportunities and resources? EDIT: I'm saying 'who cares' in the context of deciding whether to set up a gifted magnet school or not. You shouldn't decide what is good for a child based on your pet theories about who should or should not have a yacht.
- xiaoma 10y ago
  What is there in your main point that needs "refuting"? Putting ordinary students in schools optimized for the gifted is no better than demolishing schools for special needs students and sending the children to regular schools regardless of the consequences. In what way would it possibly benefit a typical student to be placed in a school where they can't keep up? How would it feel for that child to be in an environment where it's normal for their peers to take college courses before reaching high school age? In my experience, it's extremely demotivating and leads to a lot of pain for the child, no matter how wealthy his or her parents may be. As justin_vanw pointed out (in an undeservedly flagged sibling post), it seems an awful lot like you deny the existence of gifted children to begin with.

tabeth 10y ago

I won't respond to the first point. If you're seriously asking "who cares" about income inequality then I don't think discourse will be productive. In any case, you didn't seem to refute my main point that gifted schools would also benefit regular students.

justin_vanw 10y ago
Ok, I will bet that you don't even believe that there are intelligence differences between people, right? Every person is equally capable and it all comes down to whether you give them enough opportunities and resources? EDIT: I'm saying 'who cares' in the context of deciding whether to set up a gifted magnet school or not. You shouldn't decide what is good for a child based on your pet theories about who should or should not have a yacht.
xiaoma 10y ago
What is there in your main point that needs "refuting"? Putting ordinary students in schools optimized for the gifted is no better than demolishing schools for special needs students and sending the children to regular schools regardless of the consequences. In what way would it possibly benefit a typical student to be placed in a school where they can't keep up? How would it feel for that child to be in an environment where it's normal for their peers to take college courses before reaching high school age? In my experience, it's extremely demotivating and leads to a lot of pain for the child, no matter how wealthy his or her parents may be. As justin_vanw pointed out (in an undeservedly flagged sibling post), it seems an awful lot like you deny the existence of gifted children to begin with.