Yeah same. Our town had a "smart kids" school and a dozen of ordinary ones. I once won the town's informatics Olympiad in my age cohort, so to prepare for the r

Yeah same. Our town had a "smart kids" school and a dozen of ordinary ones. I once won the town's informatics Olympiad in my age cohort, so to prepare for the regional stage they dispatched me over to that school's auspices for training. The teacher literally ignored my presence; so in the next competition I had to use both IBM PC and Pascal for the first time in my life. Scored something like 12th out of 40, but the teacher gloated on the way back. I seriously think the "no child left behind" type education so derided here produces better general outcome. Holding up resources for a few select students is quite the opposite of meritocracy.