> Parents/families need to make the decision to give up on the positive returns of gifted education in favor of potential learning outcomes for other students

> Parents/families need to make the decision to give up on the positive returns of gifted education in favor of potential learning outcomes for other students You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. We know a big part of education success is home environment. You can surround a kid with Einstein schoolmates but if he's getting beat daily and not getting fed, it doesn't matter. Add in unsafe living conditions and no access to books and you have a disaster nobody but the kids parents can solve. Why then should we harm the gifted? Why should we allow them worse outcomes because someone's parents are garbage? You aren't going to make a shitty parent into a capable one when they fundamentally don't care to begin with, no matter how many high performing students you drag down in the process. On an individual basis my duty is to do the best I can do for my kids, and that is all I can do.