Zen scanner I get what you are saying that schools don't seem to have increased the difficulty for the normally developing kids, but gifted kids needing different provisions is about a lot more than pure curriculum to me - its about speed, finding peers, thinking differently, etc. so that relative difference does seem very important to me. Going from 2% to 5% to eventually 20% above x cutoff is not really helping the kids that were in the 2% at all. Let alone the .1% kids...