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Poster: Cave Johnson
Subject: RE: Why can't education be like it was in the 60"s
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You're an example of the problem with that. You just missed the cut off and spent the rest of your days bored and unchallenged. If the tracking test was earlier you may have just had more days unchallenged and bored. If you do poorly for reasons unrelated to intelligence on the tracking test, you are screwed.

In reality tracking systems separate the rich from the poor (and therefore in general the whites from the blacks). The rich get test prep and tutors to make sure they do well on the tracking test. Therefore nearly all of the rich kids will get in the "good"/"intelligent" track. It ends up a separate but unequal de facto racial/SES segregation.


Rutsch Gefahr wrote:


It might be a good idea to separate people into various tracks earlier depending on their talents.

In my school experience I just missed the cut for the advanced group of kids in M.S. H.S., I would always be bored as hell because I was the quiet good kid in the regular classes and would get B+'s thru A's without trying it would have been nice to have been challenged more earlier on.

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