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Bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator is going to destroy everything.
Notice that high-achieving homeschoolers (who are mostly self-taught) don’t need “gifted programs.”
Public school education should be mediocre. It should be low-cost, and school taxes should be low. Public school should be the last resort for people with no other option.
Then, more parents would look to private schools, homeschooling, tutoring programs, dual-credit college courses, etc.
Public school is a government handout, like Medicaid and food stamps and subsidized housing.
But, somehow, today’s parents feel entitled to everything. They expect government to educate their children.
These demanding, entitled parents are the reason why public school has been able to monopolize the education business, drive up the cost of education, dictate to textbook publishers, and on and on.