So you believe that there's an enormous intellectual ability gap among non-special needs minors that's a combination of biology and social environments? Do you have any evidence to back that up? Do you think, if said enormous gap exists, that it's unrelated to early education tracking and the effect it has on a low-tracked student's scholastic development?

Sorry, I wasn't saying that the gap would be mitigated by independent work but that any increased difficulties in single tracking teen students would.

I don't think anyone is saying that differences in ability don't exist. But to use your example, how many of your peers were also 5+ years ahead of reading level? How many do you think were 5+ years behind?intellectually divergent.