>"Three sigmas" should be homeschooled, any sufficiently large system will only inhibit them. Many (most) parents don't have the resources to do that. If we do

>"Three sigmas" should be homeschooled, any sufficiently large system will only inhibit them. Many (most) parents don't have the resources to do that. If we don't make adequate provisions for the exceptionally gifted, we're squandering a lot of valuable talent. Nobody would tolerate a child with an IQ of 55 being made to sit in a mainstream classroom, because it's obvious that they wouldn't get anything vaguely resembling an education; we should be equally outraged about a child with an IQ of 145 in that mainstream classroom.