I grew up in a very large school district (some classes broke 1,000 per grade. mine was ~850) K-5 Elementary School 6-8 Middle School 9-10 Intermediate High School 11-12 Senior High School
My middle school used teams to unofficially track kids based on behavior and socioeconomic status. Just saying. It was known. For example, because I was new, I got tracked into the "bad" team in 6th grade. Of my team of 100 kids, 2 of us were in the honors program that started in 7th grade. The other 58 kids were from the other two teams. On our first day, we found out that all 58 other kids had been diagramming sentences for the last quarter of 6th grade, and the teacher yelled at us for not knowing how to do it, even though we hadn't been even close to getting to that.
All the kids and parents talked about the teams, but administrators always denied it. I think they've changed that since then, but I'm not sure. It was so unfair and terrible. Also racist.
Wow, I am so sorry. That is terrible.
I mean, I was fine. I'm white and my parents advocated for me. Not so for a whole bunch of other kids who fell through the cracks.
We don't have a middle school. Our elementary goes from k-6 and then the jr/sr high school is 7-12. The 7th and 8th grades are in their own little section away from the 10-12th graders, so they don't interact a ton.
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