> you don't want to let the naturally gifted coast through. As someone who isn't in the arts field at all, so please bear with my probable ignorance: why do yo

> you don't want to let the naturally gifted coast through. As someone who isn't in the arts field at all, so please bear with my probable ignorance: why do you not want to let them coast through? Each class has a set of requirements that need to be passed and the pupil's level of performance at it graded; if someone is gifted at it then they're already at a high performance level. To put it in a way that's more related to me: I'm a software engineer and lets say that I decide to go take some first year software engineering classes again, particularly the ones related to learning how to program: I will blow through the classes in 1/5th of the time while playing a game on another monitor and still do very well. Shouldn't I get a high grade despite the fact that I put a lot more effort into my invasion of the Soviet Union while playing Japan on Hearts of Iron while I was also developing?