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Re:Education Killed The Creativity [In Me] by dschobel on Monday May 25, 2009 @03:51PM (#625804)
Do you think it's reasonable or fair to expect the public school system to be the ones to develop an extraordinary child?

How many resources should they apply to the top 2% of children?

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Re:Education Killed The Creativity [In Me] by cabalamat on Monday May 25, 2009 @04:30PM (#625844)
> How many resources should they apply to the top 2% of children?

Resources spend on the cleverest kids will probably provide a bigger return on investmant than for other kids, so about 5%

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Re:Education Killed The Creativity [In Me] by apsec112 on Monday May 25, 2009 @07:46PM (#626037)
Yes. If they don't, who should? The parents? Many parents are completely useless (or worse); should we just write off their children?
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Re:Education Killed The Creativity [In Me] by dschobel on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @03:18PM (#627305)
The point is that I'd be content if government served the general case of population well. Super-bright kids are a special case there will be less harm to society should they be under-developed.

I know that's horribly utilitarian of me but I'm just being pragmatic.

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