Tracking

Tracking in school is beneficial and detrimental. For certain subjects tracking is more essential than in others. For humanities, in my opinion, tracking is not necessary. I think that people who have different skills in history and English can easily be in a class together, however, in classes such as foreign languages, math, and science tracking is useful. Trying to simultaneously teach someone who is extremely gifted at math and someone who really struggles with it is not going to work out very well. The student who is struggling will probably be more discouraged and learn less than if he or she were in a class with students who are at the same math level as them. Tracking should also be based on each subject so someone who was very gifted at science but has trouble with learning Japanese should be in two different levels for those classes.
  Not everyone has the same intelligence and in an ideal world tracking would not have to exist but unfortunately life is competitive and so is school.  There is a large flaw with our system, that just like everybody else teachers are prejudice. Teachers who select which students go in the gifted classes should be aware if they have biases and if that affects their decisions.  If teachers have different expectations based on race and gender than this might affect how the teacher selects who goes into what tracking level. Stereotypes are what often cause the detrimental side of tracking.