Tracking

In my opinion, tracking is a great idea. If tracking was eliminated, it would not be beneficial to anyone.  Smarter students would suffer because they are being restrained. Without the option for more classes those students would have a hard time improving and would not be able to reach their full potential.  The weaker students would struggle because not enough attention would be paid to them with higher achieving students in the same classroom.  The teachers would also have a very hard time teaching a group of students with skill levels varying drastically.  It would be unfair not to offer more advanced classes to students who do very well in a subject and want to pursue that subject. Tracking may make students feel bad about themselves because they are in lower classes but as I know from experience students can feel bad about themselves if they are on a higher track and feel good about themselves if they are in a lower track, Students feeling bad or good about themselves is just something that happens naturally.  Tracking helps students discover what they are passionate about and what they are good at. It also helps them realize that they might not be as good in other subjects and they might need to work harder, which is something a student should be aware of.  Sometimes its hard for a student to break out of a certain track once they are in it. This is a good thing. First of all, it means that the student was placed in the correct track, secondly it should be hard, that's the whole point. If it were easy to move up to a higher track then we might as well just not have tracking. School should challenge students. It should be hard. That's exactly why we go to school in the first place.