So fast track the smart kids, and send the the dumb ones to other schools or different programs? Well the problem with that, is when the children are compared to standards set by the state, the majority of the children don't meet those standards, so the "smart kids" are being fast tracked which usualy isn't many because the kids aren't educated to begin with. I hate to break it to you but that method is already taking place in many schools across the nation, and I don't see 60 min boasting about it's success.

The teachers that are doing a crappy job are getting paid just as much as the good ones. It is also next to impossible to fire a teacher based on performance, and even then, they will just go to another district. Why impliment a program like that when, like I've said before, we have difinitive evidence that most kids are just as capable of learning as their peers and that this problem is mostly the teachers fault. I don't want to sound like a broken record, but those kipp schools are taking random kids out of the ghetto and putting them through college. They don't choose the "smart" ones.

You guys need to watch the freaking movie. They specificaly talk about that "fast track" for smart kids, and how it sucks.