Part of it is that, but part of it is that can ruin a kid is they are kept in a non-academically challenging environment. Kids that should have been in G&T programs but weren’t seem to complain a lot more about not developing certain skills because they never needed to practice them in school.

Also, in a lot of schools, this is how they triage the kids who are definitely going to college and pulling them from the corrupting influence of the general population.