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The problem with that its in large part class based - come from a working class background or have learning disabilities you get pigeonholed into the lower trac
by C1sc0cat 6y ago
The problem with that its in large part class based - come from a working class background or have learning disabilities you get pigeonholed into the lower tracks - with less resources.
Jumping tracks is hard and before the EU intervened almost impossible.
- dgellow 6y agoYes, that's definitely an issue. I had 3-4 different version of the system I described during my school time as my swiss canton was struggling to find the correct balance, each time you could see kids finding themselves stuck because of a lack of parental resources or other reasons. Moving from one stream to another is possible, though of course that varies from place to place, but that definitely requires a strong investment from the student in both time and effort if they want to switch to a stream with more opportunities.
- dhshahsndeisjwn 6y agoI would agree. The testing used to stream kids is noisy at best and systematically biased at worst against kids with educated parents.