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[quote=Anonymous]The question is also a bit at what age and in what form to you "track" for a lack of a better word. Many countries have tracking systems, up to three different types of schools, at some point. They tend to do that not much before 7th grade or so. The problem with tracking into different schools (having been raised in a country that does that) is that students are assumed to be overall low or overall high performing. In such systems, there is no place for a student who is excellent in math/science but trails in humanities/reading. While I think that tracking is a fact of life at some point and not doing so would make us all worse off (the lack of vocationally trained workforce speaks to that), I think it's really important to keep the tracked students as close together as possible so they can cross over, whenever they're ready or in whatever area they're ready in. There should also be plenty of room where such tracking isn't done so someone doesn't get stuck and has opportunities to compare notes and, every so often, one or the other will take off, just a little later.[/quote]

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