Higher learning: More middle-schoolers leapfrog into advanced classes -- but are minorities being left behind?

Some middle schools are allowing advanced students to take high school classes for credit.  This has set off alarm bells for many...

But the nation's foremost scholars in middle-school education are worried the fast-growing trend is leaving minority children behind. They also question whether the practice is legal because, nationwide, it has tended to result in students being segregated by race.

Basically, the argument is that this shouldn't be allowed because somehow its not fair.  Those students who have the desire and ability to accelerate their education shouldn't be given this option.  

In the current educational system self esteem and fairness are the rule.  No one should be allowed to excel (too much) and no one should be allowed to fail.  If you excel you make others look bad,  if you fail you make the system look bad.  

 

This is not meritocracy, it is mediocrity.

Full article:  Orlando Sentinel