Hey, I'm as anarcho-syndicalist as the next hipster, but I read your original comment as saying schools need to focus on the lowest common denominator. I'm sti

Hey, I'm as anarcho-syndicalist as the next hipster, but I read your original comment as saying schools need to focus on the lowest common denominator. I'm still kinda getting that vibe from this comment. Grades are different from money. Yes, society needs to provide a basic standard of living for everyone--but we need to do that in the way that allows the median standard of living to rise as best as it's sustainably able to. Advances in everyone's standard of living don't come from those of us in the bottom 95%, they come from the very best and brightest when their environment challenges them and allows them maximum room for growth. The incentive structure for many of the most influential people in today's society--lobbied legislators, option-cashing CEOs, income-cutoff-avoiding welfare recipients--is completely screwed. But you don't buy food and housing with grades, and inflating those by pulling down the smartest does nobody much good.