Michael Bogdanos - Tracking

To remove tracking from our schools would be to remove from our students a myriad of educational opportunities. Without tracking, teachers are forced to teach to the middle of the class. This creates vast troubles for the upper and lower thirds, who are forced to sit in the classroom extremely bored or monumentally struggling, respectively. Through tracking, a venue is opened for a personalized education plan. Those in the lower third are enabled to receive a system of education more individualized to their needs. They will not receive nearly as beneficial an education should they be forced to sit in a classroom with students, teachers, and a lesson plan far above their comprehension level. The demoralizing impacts of such a system of vastly exaggerated, as for those students they are not taking the “dumber class.” For them, it is the class that is right for them. As for the upper third, they will learn nothing, their brains will not be trained, should they be forced to sit in a classroom with students, teachers, and a lesson plan far below their comprehension level. In such a manner they will not be challenged. Tracking opens up for them a path into higher levels of learning and education. Removing tracking would be to remove the possibility of greater educational opportunities.