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[quote=Anonymous][b][quote]Why are we still talking about tracking? I don't think anybody believes in locking children into rigid academic tracks anymore. However, flexible ability grouping can benefit all children. Here's an article that discusses its effective use in MCPS: [/b][/quote]

You know darn well that gifted programs are tracking and that is exactly that parents who write “my child was highly gifted in math in kindergarten blah bla bla...” want their child labeled and segregated away from the masses. They want their kid to be put on a faster track. They don’t want their kid sitting next to kids learning their abcs.

Ability grouping is exactly what is done in kindergarten classrooms but it’s never enough. Parents get upset if they think their child who can read is even in earshot of a phonics lesson god forbid. A worksheet about the letter F is beneath their child. The truth is that a teacher allows the kid to read on his own, write long sentences on his worksheet, and explore numbers in a gifted way, but the teacher also knows that some kids who appear advanced need to do some phonics lessons or work in a kindergarten math workbook because despite what the kid’s parents think it’s actually beneficial to the child. I promise you, if your kid is reading at a sixth grade level or doing algebra in kindergarten they wouldn’t be asked to do phonics or a kindergarten workbook. But most of these kids actually do need to work at this level at least a little bit. [/quote]

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