Even if the school does not have a gifted program, ALL students deserve instruction at their level.
Sadly, not all educators would agree with this statement. In my experience, too many feel that the teacher's job is to get all the kids in the class up to the minimum required by whatever criteria the school uses. If that means that some kids learn nothing all year, then they're just "lucky."
I'd beware of assuming that this is the philosophy of any given educator, whether principal or teacher. I WISH it were always true, but in my (limited) experience, it's just not necessarily the case. You can wind up in real values clash if you assume you all agree about this and it's not so.
