Purposeful Ramblings Through My Mind

But if you've got a kid who is already behind and decides to join the lower track and then changes their mind, they're already even further behind. I think it just sets us up to continue the cycle of poverty because the poorer kids tend to have less of an educational base when they first come to school, and so it's easier for us all to assume they'd be better in a lower track, and so they don't get a high level of education, and so they get a lower-paying job, and since they don't have higher-track knowledge, their kids enter with less background knowledge too, so they decide the best fit is the lower track, etc etc. It perpetuates the educational divide which tends to fall along class lines, and thus families get stuck.