"Education officials don't like that some higher-achieving students are sorted into environments where they are more likely to succeed than their less-gifted peers, and would prefer to keep everyone officially at the same level to the greatest extent possible" So cut out all the variance, flatten the peaks, normalize the median, who cares if people are held back for the sake of 'equity'
Bland mediocrity in our world coming full force. What do some call it? Communism? Social Marxism?