Does the above statement just not tear your heart apart? We are dealing with Marxist theory right now--this notion that this capitalist society will continue to encourage and even develop more stratification between classes. The social institutions that are embedded into our culture disallow the growth and potential of students who are inevitably in the sphere of have-nots. They resist from succeeding in school because their entire life they have been told that they must remain at the bottom in order for the haves to maintain their power. The school system has set up students for failure and have created a false consciousness. It's not obvious that these inequalities occur because what school wants to boast that they are intentionally tracking students to keep the status-quo?
Tracking students is another terrible way of structuring the education system. The students who are placed in the least of these groups will not succeed. They are not pushed nor challenged by their teachers and administration. Social ties become obsolete in classrooms such as these because all of the attention is geared toward the highly capable students. From there, the system has unintentionally told the students at the bottom level that they are not worth the time and effort it takes to advance them to the next level. It makes little to no sense at all to track students because it increases the achievement gap as well as the poverty rate. Equality is promised for all but in reality, society has told their future generations that they better grow up in an affluent society in order to have any kind of upward mobility.
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