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Truly you continue parroting/squeaking 'homeschool, homeschool". OK, take a cracker. In my # 15 [had you taken the effort to comprehend it]
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Specifically, which points in my messages #26 and #64 are invalid, and why?

#64 speciffically, answers your question about why the successes of homeschooling techniques can not be duplicated on an institutional or factory-like scale.

I also have a few questions for you.

1) What about a child with an IQ of 139. Do you say to this child, "Sorry, your IQ isn't 140. You're only ordinary!"

2) What about the child with an IQ of 160? Does he get held back by those children with an IQ of 140? Do you bore the 160 child to death, or do you frustrate the 140 child by forcing him to keep pace with the brighter child?

And,,,,a final comment:

All the young adults in the university math program that my children attended likely had IQs higher than 140. If they didn't they would not have been able to do the work.

GSlob, you are in the big leagues here on Free Republic. Using the insults of "parroting/squeaking",and "OK, take a cracker ", or picking at syntax is not about to win points here.

The one with IQ 160 would have found the going to be slightly easier, and would complete the work a few minutes earlier than others, that's all. But bored or held back s/he would not be, at least from what I've seen there. Probably there are IQ stream bands within which the students are still compatible, and IQ 200 happen so rarely that they were not there. And as for "Sorry, you are not gifted enough!" - this is precisely what I am going to say [and without the "sorry" part, either] when an applicant fails the entrance selection exams, or a pupil slows the others down, fails and cannot handle the load. It is the same principle on which the sports teams are selected. The "fairness" does not apply in either case.

As a postscriptum. Judging from the language culture [i.e culture of thinking] you have demonstrated [referred to in #47 - it is beyond the typos] I tend to doubt your whole story. And English is my second language, to boot.