Yes. I'm a teacher as well. The goals can be very contradictory. Students and Parents want to learning to be individualized for them based on their specific ne

Yes. I'm a teacher as well. The goals can be very contradictory. Students and Parents want to learning to be individualized for them based on their specific needs. They don't want to be treated like products on an assembly line. Students and Parents also don't want to be treated any differently than anyone else. They don't want another student to receive "better" treatment than what they are receiving. GT students need different lessons that can keep up with them. GT students don't want to feel they are doing more work than non-GT students because they are GT. GT students don't want to have to do the same work as non-GT students. Otherwise what is the point? Non-GT students think it is unfair that GT students get to do different activities. It can be hard to explain to students and parents that Samantha gets more unstructured learning time because she can handle it and Timmy has to be pushed along with less unstructured learning time because he goofs off the whole time.