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[quote=Anonymous][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]

European immigrant here. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Classes in Europe are actually kept very heterogeneous on purposenand there is no tracking whatsoever until typically about the end of middle school. At that point, they start splitting the kids up into tracks that run from highly academic to highly vocational based on their school record. That avoids the problem of the kid spending 4 years in college and getting into massive debt to get a useless degree and end up taking a job that didn't require a college degree to begin with.[/quote]

Well, I lived in Germany and they started tracking the students in elementary in our town. If a student wasn't on the academic track, then they were forced onto the trades track. Friends of ours moved to the US so their daughter could go to a good college. She was all but shut out of any good universities in Germany. Most in the US want their children to have the opportunity to go to college. Germans may be ok with a "trades" track, but that is complete counter to the American ideal of social mobility.

In our town, the Turkish immigrant children were much more likely to be placed in the trades. My best friend (Turkish) was on the academic track, but still had trouble getting a job as an adult due to discrimination. Just my experience from my German town. [/quote]

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