California’s Department of Education has announced that the gap between well-performing students and their less able peers must disappear, indicating that mere words are not enough – schools must deliver ‘equity’ in classrooms.
Such an effort would involve faculty holding well-performing students back, even while pushing their less intellectual peers forward (as if they were all indeed equal in abilities). Potentially stranding a group of gifted individuals in a situation where they are held back by a single child who simply can’t get a problem right and needs endless special instruction is hardly something to be proud of, for the school or the students themselves.
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