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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by lupire on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:41PM (#31671155)
So we should accept that 98 0+% of people can or gave a successful life, yet should support the gifted <10% in their journey to extract the world's wealth?

I don't want to spend my tax money educating future bankers.

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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by robonerd on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:01PM (#31671534)
If you're talking about the top 10% of kids, you're obviously not talking about [just] the hyper-elite future bank executives (who are probably what, the top 0.0001%?) The top 10% of students is quite large would include all manner of engineers, doctors, etc. People who play vital roles in keeping our civilization going, not just parasitically leeching off interest rates or whatever it is banking executives do.

Most of those future executives are probably in private schools right now anyway.

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