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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It may not be called tracking, but the public school system definitely has a wide variety of options so no worries that your snowflake is suffering because of kids with a lower IQ. The kids with SN and lower IQ are not holding your kid back. For example in high school there is category A and B for self-contained, there are team taught general ed (special ed and regular teacher) and regular general ed (1 teacher) and honors and AP. [/quote]

NYC eliminated their G&T program entirely.  Seattle followed and did the same.  California public schools implemented similar measures throughout the state.

These moves have the effect of pushing the brightest kids (with wealthy parents) into private school, while diminishing the opportunities for every child left behind.

If you want states and counties to pass School Voucher legislation, this is the way to do it.[/quote]

I think you mean if you want K-12 public schools to bring back tracking, then passing School Vouchers will make them compete and do that. Or create the Charter system that is actually VERY successful here in Wash DC and modeled after the successful public Charter schools in Los Angeles. Both were set up, were successful, and stemmed the move to private or out of the city entirely.

Unf school vouchers won't help everyone it needs to help, as there are not enough private and parochial schools out there. I guess PE could slap up some more national chain private schools like in the Bay area. [/quote]

I’m PP.  I believe in charter schools as part of the solution to improving public education in the US.

As for a program championed by Vice Presidential Candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT), school choice vouchers present only a temporary supply/demand problem:

- if you give taxpaying parents a choice and supply them with the vouchers they’ve already paid for, private schools will meet any demand which arises.  [/quote]

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