Bostonian - I was responding to another poster who suggested that those who promote equal opportunity think that *all* kids have equal potential, and I presented another perspective because the people I know who promote social justice do not think this. We can discuss the details of distributions, but that misses the point. It is just the kind of argument that you make above that leads to racial stereotyping in schools that discriminates against individual kids. There is a well documented phenomenon of average characteristics of a group being applied inappropriately to individuals. The strategies schools use for identifying gifted kids are far from perfect in this regard.
