What bothers me the most is the harm infringed upon all of the children involved, regardless of their intelligence level.

For one, promoting an "average" child with an IQ of 105 into a gifted program may place extra stress upon him or her--simply for the sake of appeasing the parents.

Secondly, how troubling would this be for a PG child (IQ of 170 to 180) to be surrounded by those of significantly lesser ability--thereby dragging down the overall level of the curriculum?

The simplest approach is to raise the standards and quality of the schools--that way there will be less mania and need to switch somewhere better. What do you guys think?