Tracking- Nicholas Cancar

Tracking in schools is a highly controversial topic. Many argue that it is an effective system and it sets up a school education of equity catered to each individual. Others pose the response that it ostracizes student from on another, forming a foundation for segregation. I personally believe that tracking should be eliminated from the education system. It cusses more problems than it solves. It really is the foundation of segregation; many students find their own niche of friends, and each niche is categorized. Labeling such a distinction between kids causes them to feel different from one another, and so they lash out in acts of segregation. As far as teaching each student on different levels catered to their individual performance, it allows kids a false sense of security, one that will not perceive in their futures. If we want to develop students into having an open mind, we must allow them to experience real life instances. We must exclude tracking from our educational system.