Poor choice of words to say "pit against"--what I meant was that I don't think it's really reasonable to try to determine whether one of those kids is meaningfully smarter than other or needs more in the classroom than the other, especially considering many other variables that are less definable on paper.

As to whether we all agree--I don't know. I think some posters here would not agree that those 5000 kids are all deserving of gifted ed.

I find this topic immensely confusing myself--do we advocate for separate HG+ programs, or what?--so I have no answers.