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Disagree, I would have sought them out in regular classes if they had been in my classes. I always wanted to do well, just wasn't sure what I needed to do. 
Interestingly, I ended up achieving more than they did, both academically and financially. Some of that was drive, the other was that I was determined to prove my school wrong wrt their assumptions. [/quote]

You may have sought the students out, but you would not have been taking advanced chemistry were it not for tracking.   You and they would have been a few kids in a regular chemistry class, and you would probably have all just gotten As.   You would not have received feedback that your work was C level, because in regular chemistry, with average students, you would have been top of the class.[/quote]

Disagree. They just need to let kids into advanced classes because the kid feels ready. My point is that tracking fails many kids who don't have the guts to do what I did. The school had their minds made up about certain kids. Just because I did not study a lick (zippo) until age 13, does not mean that I should have become a secretary rather than a mathematician. I was straight Cs and Ds in 7th grade, and straight As by HS.[/quote]

If the school puts all the kids who are earning Cs and Ds in 7th grade, into the advanced classes in 8th grade, those classes will cease to be "advanced" classes.  So I hope you aren't arguing for open access to advanced classes.[/quote]

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