Originally Posted by doclori
Nevertheless, the kids in the GT classrooms reap the benefit of having parents who spend time volunteering, bring extras in from home, etc.

This is the other thing. The highly endowed schools seem to have a more hands off group of parents. The less so have much more involved parents.

One other point is that the threadbare school will have much fewer distractions. I think this makes the teachers and kids "hungrier."