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[quote=Anonymous]This POC who grew up poor begs to differ.  If my MS and HS hadn't been tracked, my childhood pals and I wouldn't have made it to great colleges. Michelle Obama and her brother (Princeton grads) have said the same thing, on the record, many times over the years.

It all depends how the selection for advanced classes is done. The city of Chicago and MoCo practice "flex tracking" these days, whereby a student, parent, teacher or admin can recommend a track assignment or change any quarter or any year. Tracking is now flexible in many urban school systems.

What doesn't work well at DCI, and in a dozen other DC public middle schools, is lumping MS kids who read 2, 3, even 4 or 5 grade levels apart in the very same humanities and science classes.

We'd being seeing far more IBD passes senior year in HS if the practice were dumped.  The prep for Diploma studies is just too little too late for the strongest, most ambitious and hardest-working students of all stripes (low SES, high SES, white, black, Latino, Asian).
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