What are the social implications of tracking? Should society ignore the social consequences of tracking?
What will be an ideal response?
Socially, tracks create settings that shape students' self-esteem and expectations about academic performance. Being assigned to particular tracks immediately ranks students in a status hierarchy, formally stating that some students are better than others. Higher-track students receive more empathy, praise, and respect for their ideas, as well as less direction and criticism, than do lower-track students. Teachers spend more time in low-track classes on discipline, and students in those classes perceive their teachers as more punitive than do students in high-track classes. Students at the top are taught critical thinking, creativity, and independence, while students at the bottom are denied access to these educationally and socially important experiences. Since it is clear that tracking segregates children by social class and ethnicity, most students are likely to argue that the social consequences of tracking should not be ignored.
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