This kid is right on.

Common Core is so deeply flawed I could go on and on, but the kids who suffer are the outliers. Because of social pressure, the special-needs kids are generally taken care of. As it should be. It's the gifted kids who suffer in such a system. In our district the solve the problem of what to do with these students with a magnet school for gifted kids...my son went there for kindergarten. They taught the kids at one grade level above normal. That's it. And they became really indignant when I suggested that it wasn't enough for some of the students.

Bureaucratic convenience indeed....