[maica]

Then again, having kids non-tracked, whose ambition for the day is to ruin a learning environment for any child in the room who may actually have a desire to learn, doesn't do much for the transference of knowledge.

[A_perfect_lady]

No, I don’t mean they are tracked by ability, they are just broken up into tracks to accommodate the overflow of students. Then further scheduled to be in the same group from class to class. They become like a pack of wolves, moving en masse from one teacher to another, and teachers are seen now as mere entertainers (combined with waitresses whose job, they seem to think, is to supply extra pencils at the bark of an order.) It’s really dreadful sometimes. I often wish I’d just become an accountant or something.