I agree 100% that teachers are being pushed to focus on the students with low achievement and can not push the gifted students. This subject to me is at the core of what is wrong in our current educational system. If we spend all of our time with the underachieving students in order not to leave them behind we will neglect to push the gifted students. There has been a push in our educational system to dumb down the material and assessments in order to give everyone a chance to pass. The problem is that our gifted students are bored and are left unchallenged. The only option left seems to be to allow them to skip grades in order to challenge thse students. The problem is that they may miss important foundations or basic building blocks that could hurt their education in the long run.

Our gifted students are those who will most likely be driving our countries economy providing jobs for many others. Do we really want hold back their potential in order to keep Suzie from failing a class?


Check out this article from Edutopia.
http://www.edutopia.org/gifted-students-skipping-grades