advanced school programs should be kept and expanded

My opponent beings their closing speech with the statement "Please, the debate was about the highly capable programs, not about where the money or focus should go." is my opponent unaware that keeping and expanding advanced schools is purely a debate over where the government's money should go and actually is a debate over absolutely nothing else?"You make a strong argument with the fact that highly capable should be able to deal with boredom or bullying, however the students in this circumstance are not learning new material because they could understand what the assignment is three or four hours worth of explanation that the teacher gives the class. That is then a wasted three to four hours that child could spend learning new topics." The child needs to learn. Despite being highly capable, it is very likely that there are pieces of information only available on a syllabus and never reached by self-study alone because often children with high capabilities specialise into one particular topic of study for the sole purpose of intellectual pursuit regardless of application to modern world. Schooling helps them focus their minds on more applicable forms of knowledge."My information is solid, as I am a highly capable student and our school is thinking of getting rid of the program because the class is exclusive to children who get higher grades." My opponent seems to justify the validity of their information by explaining that it is their subjective, personal opinion. Clearly this is a logical fallacy and should be disregarded."Yes, the disabled children do need more focus towards their needs, but we (as a society) need to look at everyone"s needs because the "whiz kids" are also needing to be pushed ahead and challenged to get farther in their lives." This is totally incorrect. Whiz kids, as my opponent calls them, will already be pushing themselves as they have a high intellectual capacity to plan for the future that the norm do not have. Meanwhile the disabled children,w ho really do need pushing and help, are not being sufficiently funded and this is clearly a far more pressing issue at hand."If these kids are not challenged, they will think poorly of themselves and loose[lose] self-confidence." This is false, they will actually have hugely increased self-confidence because they will be acing every test while their peers struggle in admiration."he highly capable children need to be recognized as not just the smartest kid in class, and they need an environment where all the kids are equally smart and then they will be challenged properly." This isn't true and my opponent offers no evidence to support its validity, which according to me doesn't exist because it's an invalid statement.The rest of my opponent's speech is all plagiarized and unoriginal content but I shall address it nonetheless."A goal of education should be to challenge each student at his/her own level. Parents of highly capable children do not want their children to receive better education than other children receive. They only want education that is appropriate to their children's special learning needs." This is pointless because a higher demanding program would merely put more unnecessary stress on the highly gifted and in fact be much harder for them to cope with that a standard class. Additionally they will often get lower grades overall than if they had been in a standardised school."Highly capable children represent the top 1 to 3 percent of the normal bell-shaped curve of learning ability. They learn differently, and their needs cannot be met in the regular classroom. My children were bored, unhappy and disruptive in regular classrooms, in spite of the outstanding efforts of excellent, caring teachers. In special classrooms where learning is suited to their needs, they are thriving." Whilst this is admirable, it is clearly an issue with the students as opposed to the teachers who are described as excellent and caring. Perhaps seeking help for something like ADHD could be advisable."If gifted programs are abolished, as it appears that many would like, I would have to send my children to private school, which I cannot afford. I pay my taxes. Why shouldn't my public schools meet the needs of my children as they meet the needs of everyone else's children?" he error here is the failure toe realise that schools already meet the needs of such students. "Nobody would dare criticize education that meets the special needs of children at the other end of the normal bell-shaped curve, the "special education" students with learning disabilities." That is because they actually need help whilst the highly gifted don't, if anything they need even less help than most do."Q. My daughter is bright, but I'm not sure she's highly capable. She seems happy at her school and has plenty of friends, but I wonder if she is really being challenged.A. Educational research indicates that many gifted girls go "underground" with their talents at an early age. They are often very socially aware and seek to fit in with other children their age rather than letting their true abilities shine through. Because they often don't exhibit the behaviors typically associated with boys who are not being adequately challenged, such as acting out or underachieving, parents and teachers may believe they don't require additional challenges or are simply hard workers and high achievers. Unfortunately, for these reasons, many highly capable girls are not given the opportunity to recognize their own potential and work at the level they are capable of. Seabury provides academically talented girls a place where it is safe to be smart and where their gifts are celebrated and nurtured." Firstly this is a highly biased advertisement which probably wasn't even a genuine question and was all made up for the advertising of a school named "Seabury" for the gifted girls. Secondly all these baseless assertions are not backed up with any evidence at all, it's merely unfounded sexist opinion.The other two sources had nothing to with debate and display which plagiarism never gets you far.