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[quote=Anonymous]Here is the challenge you have with tracking, it clearly favored middle class kids and in many cases white kids.  NPR did an interesting series a while back about how tracking impacted minority kids and it found that white parents were much more likely to advocate for putting a child in a higher level class than minority parents.  Minority parents believing more often that educators knew what they were doing. Even when teachers have also demonstrated for better or worse similar biases. Though the higher the economic level the less this was the case.  So generalized privilege ended up helping a certain group and holding back another group.  It is why there has been a generalized effort to do differentiated education within a classroom.  I wish there was a greater attempt at educating parents in poorer neighborhoods to advocate for their kids.  Many would like to but the educational system can be pretty formidable to a single poorly educated mom that demands meetings at times she will not be able to meet due to working or multiple bus schedules. But the long a short is that all of us wishing for more rigor, TAG or magnet schools will fight for change but the kids whose parents are not able or willing to be involved will not help their kids get these programs so they get left behind.  [/quote]

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