Grouping and Tracking

In the reading "Tracking: Why School's Need to Take Another Route" by Jeannie Oaks

 the grouping of children in school is the topic. Is it the right thing to do? Is it the wrong thing to do? People argue the fact that there are good and bad problems with grouping kids in school, i believe that these people are not looking at education the right way. They are not looking at education for the individual. I believe that there are not advantages to grouping students.

This grouping of students strategies can hurt the students, instead of leaving students with opportunities to excel and become all  they can be it takes away from the students learning. The students are most likely to be stuck or trapped in the level of classes that they were put in the first place. I think that this is unfair and not a conventional way of dealing with students. If we want students to retain interest in school and have hopes of one day becoming more we have to show them that we have confidence in their abilities. Students who are categorized and subjected to this grouping and tracking method will not be excited to go to school most will not want to learn. I believe that this kind of education  is what causes students to lose faith in the education system, it is the reason that students ask the why questions. 

Why am i here? Why does it matter? Why do i care, if they don't? Why don't they care?

I made a connection between this reading and the video "Between Barack and a Hard Place" because in the film the speaker talked about how students of Black or Hispanic background were put in lower classes simply because they were not white and they didn't believe that they could excel in these classrooms. And because of this they were viewed as less able and maybe less intelligent. I also related this to the movie freedom writers, this reading directly related to this movie completely and entirely