> The article itself says that students who want to go ahead will get private lessons. This is a ridiculously privileged view that hurts the people it claims t

> The article itself says that students who want to go ahead will get private lessons. This is a ridiculously privileged view that hurts the people it claims to help. As a child, I was heavily invested in math, but I was raised by a mother who had no resources or inclination to pay for private lessons. Luckily my public school district had a few advanced classes available for all, and along with my own initiative, I was able to scrounge up a passable math education. > The way it works is that if you put an advanced class and no normal pace class, Caveat: I didn't grow up in California. I don't know how public schools are run there. That being said, this sounds like nonsense to me. There were always normal pace classes for students who excelled less. These were, in my experience, the most populated classes.