While the article looks impressive, it is not practical. I have personally felt that those at the top in the school have certain advantages that other students do not get. Consider admission to secondary school from primary school or to college from secondary school, in both cases, a student with higher marks gets easy admission than others. I have friends who are still searching for jobs even after two years of engineering, because they did not do engg in a top school, which in turn was because they did not do well in competitive exams and in secondary school. There could be some examples to prove a school drop-out or a bad performer at school did well in life, on the other side, there are thousands more, whom nobody counts, who did bad in school days and later suffered in life. So it's natural for parents to force their children to do better in school, so that they come up in life at least to lead a normal life.