Yes. The smart kids don't help the dumb kids much. The dumb kids more often harm the smart ones though. Sometimes through malice, sometimes just through crimin

Yes. The smart kids don't help the dumb kids much. The dumb kids more often harm the smart ones though. Sometimes through malice, sometimes just through criminal habits and had behaviors that rub off. Companies and governments don't have a quota of stupid people they have to bring on board, why should schools? The best education I ever received was in 6th grade. https://megsss.org/elements-curriculum https://megsss.org/elements-curriculum it got progressively worse every year after that program ended. It is better to increase the effectiveness of your best at the cost of your not best. The best invent/do/produce/control more over their lifetimes. They're also easier to make more effective because they already have a better base to amplify. If you try to amplify your non best at the cost of your best, you'll find that its very hard to drag them kicking into utility. Most countries / businesses / families are great because of the outliers of greatness in them. Rising the oceans ever so slightly by cutting down the piers, is a bad deal.