the idea that you should just put everybody in the same room together and expect them to get along and work at the same pace is entirely backwards type thinking, and precisely what's wrong with the society.
that said, i realized when i got to the honours stream that they didn't put me in the smart class but rather put me in the rich class, and the ideas underlying the implementation were shoddy, at best. and, i wasn't rich - or at least wasn't culturally rich (my stepmother had some money, and by this time i was living fairly comfortably, even if i grew up in a ghetto).
if the program was implemented accurately - and was actually about smarts rather than class - then it could have been a way out, for me. instead, i got bored, skipped a lot of classes and ended up tuning out.
so, i would call on the system to drop this stupidity about education "creating inequities" and instead refocus on what the honours stream is supposed to be about, which is allowing the brightest kids to escape the collectivism of public education. we're going to end up stagnant and backwards if we take our brightest and force them into the same stream as the dumbest...
or, maybe you just want to purge them, instead?