Hi Dottie,
Nice analogy. I'll use that. But I disagree your estimation of the population.
The top 10% of kids aren't learning at their level. Some are more frustrated than others, but they all share the problem, and they would ALL benefit from acceleration.
There are almost 74 million children under age 18 in the US; 10% of that number is 7.4 million. That's a lot of unchallenged kids! If your school only has 300 kids, there are 30 very bright kids and maybe 45 special ed kids. That's not a huge difference.
We have to remember that if something like this was easy, it would have been done long ago.
Val
