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helviragoSo I'm looking for some general information about high schools and tracking. If you didn't go to an American high school, you can still... actually, even better! The more kinds of schools I can learn about, the better. I'm supposed to debate tracking, and I'm really of two minds. As someone who left high school early, I remember GT classes being better than others (that is to say, slightly quicker), but I was still bored out of my skull. And I went to one high school which didn't have any such classes, but which drew its students from a highly-educated community AND drew only the fairly dedicated students. And on the other hand, there's this issue of the kids who aren't in GT classes at schools where they do exist -- does that send a message to them that they're dumb? Cause that would be bad. (Because honestly I think it has a lot to do with whether your brain happens to work in the way most high school classes are taught, which is less a matter of intelligence and more one of an array of equally valuable learning styles.) Is the good outweighed by the bad? Is there any good at all? And what about apparent racial disparities in enrollment? Is racism inherent in the system? Is classism? Could it be fixed? So I'm interested in gathering more information -- what were your experiences? Do you have an opinion? Anything I should have asked but didn't?
Oh ick, I hate that you can't edit polls. Anyway, that bit where the choices go "No, I don't believe in them/ No, I don't feel I needed them" really doesn't cover the array of "No" choices -- for instance, there's "No, those bastards!" and "No, I chose another track" and "No, the flabotnum ate our AP teacher" and all kinds of other things -- but feel free to use the Other option on any entry. I'm well aware that I didn't cover the spectrum at all. (And also "No, I was a bit too busy working to feed my family/having a baby/dealing with a learning disability/being poorly educated, etc" and good Lord, someone take away the Edit button!)
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Oh ick, I hate that you can't edit polls. Anyway, that bit where the choices go "No, I don't believe in them/ No, I don't feel I needed them" really doesn't cover the array of "No" choices -- for instance, there's "No, those bastards!" and "No, I chose another track" and "No, the flabotnum ate our AP teacher" and all kinds of other things -- but feel free to use the Other option on any entry. I'm well aware that I didn't cover the spectrum at all. (And also "No, I was a bit too busy working to feed my family/having a baby/dealing with a learning disability/being poorly educated, etc" and good Lord, someone take away the Edit button!)
[Poll #464062]
