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I don't disagree with this generally, with a child new to a CES this year, but notwithstanding what some say on this forum, the CES classroom is filled with really bright, generally enthusiastic and motivated kids.  That makes a lot of what they do in class work.  One could replicate that in the larger ES's and MS's by simply tracking kids, but nobody, apparently, wants to do that. [/quote]

Nobody wants to do that because it's bad for all of the kids who are, for whatever reason, in lower tracks. Research has established this over and over and over.[/quote]

I get that kids on a lower track for whatever reason need great teachers and great curricula. What I don't get is why their needs should come before the needs of kids who can perform on a higher track to do so. It doesn't make sense to me to hold back better-performing kids because it benefits other kids. The better-performing kids have just as much right to get their educational needs met.

If anyone were to flip the paradigm -- let's not track because it's better for the higher-performing kids at the expense of the lower-performing kids -- people would lose their lunch.[/quote]

It's not "kids on a lower track need great teachers and great curricula". It's "tracking harms kids on the lower tracks".[/quote]

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