Oh by all means, let’s go ahead and tether the brightest, most motivated students to the slowest and least motivated, and see how that works out, especially for math and the hard sciences!! Yes, let’s ensure mediocrity rules the day, and no one achieves any more than anyone else — dragging down the whole. That is what this entire argument is about.
Leftism is about equal outcome, not equal opportunity. The Utopian goal is to eliminate envy in the world. Their dream is completely unattainable though. The first problem is that envy is a choice, not an inevitability. There will always be those that choose it. The second is that there are many sources that prompt envy and they cannot cap them all. They can induce academic equal outcome by tripping up the smart kids but this does nothing to address athletic and artistic ability, talent, looks, personality, temperament, health, family. An envy free world is unquestionably unattainable. Efforts to achieve it are futile and a waste of limited resources. The goal of leftism is unsound from the start and should be recognized as a fast spreading pathogen infecting our culture. Life just isn’t fair and can never be made so.