<p>@Halogen:</p>
<p>Akin to a college admission process, such as standardized testing during the end of 8th grade, while allowing kids who are the top of their class at a lower high school to ascend to a higher ranking one? While I certainly disagree with the side-effects of this method, such as how it may seem to be promoting elitism, the gap between overachievers and underachievers is pretty wide, to the point that you see schools struggling because they have three or four kids that finished calculus II during their freshman year, while they also have some other kids who are struggling with pre-algebra, so they are pretty much in a bind as they cannot offer all math courses between multivariable calculus and introduction to pre-algebra due to their tight budget.</p>
<p>@UKGirl23:</p>
<p>I am aware of the ethical and moral problems with this kind of system, though the schools would be serving the kids to the best of their abilities. If we have several kids that are struggling to simply pass a basic science course, while on the other hand we have several others who can ace college-level chemistry and physics courses, it’s somewhat impossible for a school to serve the latter kids to their full potential without losing the former group, so we’d need several different schools to account for each kid’s abilities.</p>
<p>@CTScout:</p>
<p>That’s why specialized schools exist.</p>
<p>Y’know, just disregard my post in general. It’s just that I really disagree with how we have several school that seem to be catering to the general population, instead of having each school cater to a more specific sector, which tends to not fully allow kids that are highly advanced reach their full potential while losing the failing ones.</p>