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Well, I don't think this discussion for me is really about diversity per se.  Except for that it seems like (and I could be wrong) that the schools I went to managed to have high quality programs AND a degree of diversity.  We had a full-on auto shop and 4H clubs that seemed to prep people along a decent vocational track, and kids going to the university to take advanced math, at the same time.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who grew up in a Midwestern college town. And I've had this same argument with my father about tracking at his Midwestern high school in the 1950s. He was in the college track. "Everybody got along fine, and everybody got a good-quality education according to their needs, without economic-class conflict," he says. Well, if you asked the people who were not in the college track, maybe they'd remember things the same way -- or maybe they wouldn't. When I was in school, there were certainly disputes and resentments, just less overt than they are today. And they're not overt only in MCPS; they're also overt in that Midwestern college-town school system.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure that the farm kids were happy in auto shop (and some of them went on to college to become ag engineers, and some just went back to work on the farms).  I don't want to derail this into a discussion on tracking, but it seems like the worst of both worlds to purport to end tracking, and to not offer vocational or other training that is actually useful to people who might not be going to college right away.  [/quote]

ITA. College is not for everybody, nor is a white collar job.[/quote]

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