So be it. Let them do as they please. Send them to crappy schools and send the smart/ambitious ones to good schools. Let the unmotivated children be unmotivated but don't let them corrupt those who do want to do well.

And I do not believe it is hard to tell where a child fits. Grades (acutal grades, based on a rough scale) would do wonders to separate the wheat from the chaff.

I lost a lot of smart friends to peer pressure from the stupid bullies. My friends just did not want to be different and do well. So they stopped trying. One is in prison. One is dead from suicide. Two more work menial jobs. Not one of them should have missed out on college. But the stupid bullies beat the will to suceed out of them.

Azi