I'm wondering how you feel about "smart" kids like Terence Tao.[1][2]

At age 14, he was in enrolled in college instead of attending high school with his "less smart" peers. At age 17, he was a graduate student at Princeton instead of being a senior at high school with other kids his age. (And working backwards from those 2 points in his timeline, he was in highschool when he should have been in middle school, etc.)

Should the young Terence Tao regardless of intelligence be denied the ability to "remove" himself from the school he is "supposed" to go so that other kids can benefit from his intellect? If at age 8, he's pulled from regular school to attend high school instead, are his parents selfish?

Is there a political movement to force all geniuses to stay with their age group and normally assigned school to fulfill a societal goal?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao

[2] http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Tao.h...