The Spanish system educational has serious problems, as reflected in the results of the international programs of study in which we participate, particularly PISA. Our average results are quite low, but not only that but, despite the fact that they want to convince us that the system is equitable given that the variance of the results is small (i.e. we are bad, but we are all bad), the percentage of students in the lower levels of performance is around 25% (in Finland around 6%), while the rate of repeaters and dropouts is around unbearable figures for any modern country that will see, in this tenor, seriously compromised its future.

But there is more. Only around 3-5% of our students are placed in PISA levels 5 and 6, the highest and which reflect the highest level of skill of schoolchildren. To have a reference letter, in Finland they are around 25% of their students.

It is a universally proven fact that any talent that is not nurtured is in serious danger of being lost. It is also true that the most gifted students need specific help to make their potential flourish. It is not true, no matter how much it is insisted, that these students do not need specific aids to make their ability effective, just as outstanding sportsmen and women need the centers of high performing. And soccer players need good coaches. And outstanding musicians need thousands of hours of highly qualified essay and teaching , the most able schoolchildren need a teaching with a level of challenge and encouragement that they rarely get in schools.

Are all students equal in terms of motivation, ability and educational needs? No. Is the goal of the system educational promote the equality of schoolchildren? Certainly not.
Moreover, the system educational in the organic law that regulates it clearly states (art. 2.1st) the commitment to be oriented to the achievement of plenary session of the Executive Council development of the potential of students: staff social, intellectual..., and the need to identify early the needs of the most capable students (art. 76 and 77).

All students have the right to a quality Education , but not to the same Education. Simply because the radical equality of all people necessarily implies clearly diverse needs. And offering each student what he or she needs is what is truly related to equity. Giving all students the same thing only tends to mass egalitarianism.

Attending to the principle of equal opportunity is, therefore, to give each student the Education that he/she needs. Not giving everyone the same Education.

It is difficult to understand the subject of reasoning that leads to label these measures as segregating or elitist, etc. If those who say this had children in these conditions, would they deny them the best possible Education ; what is the impact on the social development that in the medium and long term deadline can have a system educational oriented to the average student ? And, finally, how is it possible that we are still in this situation when other countries much more advanced in Education than us have had centers of this subject for their students for decades?