It also has nothing to do with NCLB. Without NCLB, teachers were not helping gifted students anyway.
It is a stupid political thing to blame NCLB or common core. People always have tons of excuses for being lazy. Of course there are good teachers way beyond average, but most teachers are like average person need incentive to make them work harder, especially when they are protected by teacher tenure which does not exist in most fields.
> Without NCLB, teachers were not helping gifted students anyway.
I've seen reports of several district cutting programs for gifted students and specifically citing state performance measures adopted in fulfillment of NCLB mandates, which strongly focus on bringing up performance at the bottom.
It is a stupid political thing to blame NCLB or common core. People always have tons of excuses for being lazy. Of course there are good teachers way beyond average, but most teachers are like average person need incentive to make them work harder, especially when they are protected by teacher tenure which does not exist in most fields.