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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The educational philosophies seem to go in circles. Track -> Mix -> Track -> Mix

I am a GenXer and the advanced students were fully tracked from 6th grade into advanced classes and some tracking started as early as K for kids who came in with high scores. In our rural community, this favored the children of teachers.

Obviously this system had its own set of problems because it labeled the kids at a young age, and movement up and down the tracks was difficult. In the lower grades there was an advanced classroom.

Everyone commenting on DCUM wants what they perceive is best for their kid(s), but the system has to look at the bigger picture.

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MCPS could use flexible class placement rather than tracking. In other words, place people in cohorted classes and them let them in and out as appropriate. Kid could start in on-level class but then be moved the next year to the advanced class if they do well, or start in advanced and then move down to on-level. It does not have to be tracking, which sets the classes rigidly. [/quote]

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