Christensen Chapter 8

Tracking..this is something that also makes my skin crawl other than Standard English. Coming from a school where the majority of my peers were minorities, I really did not have an understanding of what tracking was until I got to college. Tracking is all the things that Christensen has mentioned of condemning students of and unequal education because the faulty does not thing that a group of students are not capable or student fail because teachers don't modify their curriculum for these students to succeed.

I was a "smart" student in high school. Most of my classes were AP and I never realized my peers that were getting the short end of the stick. I thought that these students weren't as capable as I was and I feel bad for saying that. I honestly believe that my school system did not give student of "low track" classes a chance. They made assumptions and these students usual turned out the way they were assumed to turn out. They stayed in these classes from ninth to twelfth, dropped out of school because they felt dumb or they felt they weren't capable of getting out of these classes. My school system did not give these students the resources or even believed in these students. It makes me sad to think about how horrible my school system is, how being tracked really does go with you until you are completely done with school. I remember when I first came to college I was put in the remedial math class because my ACT scores said that was where I need to be, but during the summer I had teachers that believed that I could Trig and Advanced Algebra. All these students need is for someone to believe in them, push them and help them. Yeah tracking is sad, but what is even sadder is the school systems that aren't doing anything about it.