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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tracking kids early leaves some kids behind FOREVER. My kid is gifted in math. Does he need to be in a separate class. No he does not. Public schooling is not for every snowflake. It's for ALL kids. For once can you broaden your circle of concern beyond your own child?

No?

That's your problem. Not the state's. Grow up.[/quote]

I don't see why tracking has to be permanent. Start kids in the same place and move them between tracks (or groups or however you'd like to do it) once or even twice a year depending on how they're doing with a concept.  I went to a high school with a couple different honors tracks and it was NBD to be in honors algebra but not honors geometry.

Somewhat off topic but I think you could get good results with single-gender math groups also.  There's been some research on that, especially for girls.[/quote]

I can admit I don’t know what research you are referring to (in fairness you didn’t cite any) but as the only girl in my AP calculus class I would have been screwed if I was limited to what there was critical girl only mass for. I have no problem with flexible non-gender-based math tracking. The idea this post is based on it not that though. There is no reason a robust educational system can provide collegiate math tracks and also non-collegiate math. It shiuldn’t be either one or the other.[/quote]

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