We had a bit of a discussion about this, about a year ago - and the general idea I got from it wasn't that the penalties stacked (outside of the Teacher/Student one, which is RAW), but that there's a boatload of other consequences of putting a bunch of Gifted students into a room with each other, without the benefit of Parma. (Although it's pretty much all talked about on the last page of Apprentices, which is summarized on the last page of the thread).
OK, so in a previous post, I mentioned that my character (St. Avery) is planning on getting an apprentice. Now, part of his reason is to show his own paren how a REAL magi takes an apprentice - which basically means "sending them to private tutors for 5 years, then Open the ways, then having a reasonable apprenticeship/secondary education for another 5 years, then letting them read the Roots and Branches for five years. Oh, and if they're slow, use that Cr Me ritual to boost their intelligence." …