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Parents who understand what “tracking” is. If you aren’t, you’re setting your child up for failure.

• war1025 8y ago
  Sounds like a pretty wild rat race you're in.
  • JTbane 8y ago
    The rat race begins before you're even considered an adult! Sad but true.
• seattle_spring 8y ago
  What is "tracking" in this case?
  • analog31 8y ago
    Kids are separated into different classes based on ability, so there's a fast place class and a slower paced class at each grade level. My elementary school was tracked. My mom made damn sure that my brothers and me were placed in the fastest track, whether we belonged there or not. Tracking has a lot of ominous implications due to bias, and has been abandoned to a considerable extent, but teachers still unavoidably treat different kids with different expectations. And "involved" parents can influence those expectations.
    • laurieg 8y ago
      Tracking (or setting, or grouping) essentially means that the higher level groups are freed from the more distracting characters in the lower groups. Great for them, but terrible for you if you end up in one of those lowers sets and end up with a loud, boisterous and violent class for a year. Teachers are busy and overworked. I'm sure they try their best to put kids in the correct group for each subject, but you could easily end up in the 'wrong' one with no malice on the teachers part. My mother was a school teacher and when she found out that I wasn't in the higher group for English she fought tooth and nail to get me up there. She knew exactly what could happen in those lower groups.