This is one of the reasons I can’t get fully behind public education because in a democracy, everything government operated must eventually revert to the mean. Excellence is not prized in government.
It's the only way to ensure that the school system continues to function. Otherwise you'd have great schools for the rich and terrible schools for the not-so-rich and horrible schools for the poor (assuming they'd have an education at all). As it is there is still lots of skewing but by having the rich kids go to the same schools as the poor ones at least the divide is a smaller one (of course, neighborhood and town/city still leave plenty of room for differences, as does the existence of home tutoring for wealthy people's kids).
No, you'd actually have gifted schools for gifted children from gifted parents, unrelated to how rich they are. IQ is highly hereditary. Asians which now dominate these schools weren't rich, they were both economically as well as socially disadvantaged as a population because of racism.
Dunno, I’m not sure I would have had that but I got in. Jr high was kind of a bad time. Times change and all, I’m not sure what the grades mean any more.
But that’s (3.5) what I got there, and and in college.
