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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We didn't have tracking when I was a kid - and I think I'm old now :)

I do think that tracking is harmful for children.  They do this in Europe, and it keeps the upper class in the upper class and the lower class immigrants in the lower classes.  [/quote]

Which country "in Europe" are you referring to? There is no pan-European system. In the UK, if they have setting (I think this is what they call tracking here,maybe-we are still new), it is done at secondary school only, so from age 11 upwards. There are generally two sets-math/science and language/arts, but kids move up and down as necessary. It is very fluid in my experience.  The kids are mixed for all other subjects like PE, drama etc. and in form groups. I have not been in FCPS long and it was a bit of a shock to see this lack of fluidity.
You are talking about social classes-that is the difference between top private schools (called "public") and state schools and completely separate from the tracking debate. The state schools are comprehensive like I described above that do setting, and a very small percentage of selective state grammar schools (where they stream kids rather than set them and selection is at age 11). I find the selection here in 2nd grade quite peculiar. Immigrants can go to private/public schools and many do, but they tend to be the rich ones. We have a lot of rich immigrants in the UK, not just poor ones...[/quote]

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