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This is a result of a very western concept that everyone should excel. This view is reinforced in the US by the 'No Child Left Behind' program. The problem is that the bottom 15% and the top 15% cannot advance at the same rate, and never will. It is not an efficient strategy for optimizing the efficiency of the teaching environment as a whole because typically 90% of the teacher's resources are devoted to 10% of the students. It is only a viable strategy in a classroom setting if you accept the fact that by teaching to the lowest denominator, you are wasting the time of the more advanced students. This can lead to inattention, failure to develop proper study habits, and a wide variety of problems in the advanced students. The problems that this causes the more advanced students are often overlooked because their natural talent allows them to adapt for these weaknesses and in the 'lowest common denominator' classroom setting that you've inquired about the more advanced students are going to excel regardless of how ineffective their learning habits are. There are many problems with this strategy. For example, later in the education of the more advanced students (typically when they begin taking more challenging AP classes in high school or when they take challenging classes in college) their lack of study habits and the other bad habits that this teaching style encourages can become a serious problem. Also, public education in the US only provides 13 years of schooling (1-12+K). It is not a productive use of time for the more advanced students to be kept in a class where they are not challenged, and those childhood learning years cannot be regained.

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