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		lupire on April 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Half of Americans say Public K-12 Education is Goi... Right or wrong, these policies only affect the outliers, and so won't show up on broad statistics. For the large majority of people, quality of gifted education isn't their concern.

jinushaun on April 24, 2024 [–]

The extrapolation is that this policy drags everyone down instead of lifting anyone up. Gifted kids are just the canary in the coal mine

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