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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]there are a lot of threads on middle school eotp where a segment of posters say nothing less than a fully segregated honors track school within a school set-up would be sufficient for them to opt into their neighborhood middle school and its like oh these posters may claim its just academics but really its in some part at bottom about socially segregating larlo from the very poor kids in the neighborhood.[/quote]

I went to school in a school that was so white I can still name the 3 non-white kids in our graduating class of 400. And it wasn’t any more diverse socio-economically — everyone was UMC, in the 80s meaning of the term and not the DCUM version that actually means “sort of rich.” Almost everyone went on to college, but we all went to state schools. Even with that homogeneous population, we had tracking. The district proposed doing away with tracking at one point when I was in 11th or 12th grade, and the kids in the advanced classes all freaked out because we knew what it was like in earlier grades in non-tracked classes and didn’t want to go back to being bored all day.

Yes, tracking can get complicated because it intersects with issues of race and class. But there are good reasons for tracking that have nothing to do with race or class. The DCUM cohort tends to be made up of people who were once advanced students bored in non-tracked classes. Many of us now have children facing the same issue. There’s more to it than just “socially segregating.”[/quote]

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