>This is certainly not my experience of the US public school system, either as a student or a parent. The typical US school has always cared more about getting

>This is certainly not my experience of the US public school system, either as a student or a parent. The typical US school has always cared more about getting 20th-percentile students Schools in the US are locally controlled. There are places that run schools like this. And there are school systems that have fantastic magnet schools for gifted students.