Not surprisingly, the debate surrounding the “leveling” of classes at DHS is quite heated and involved.  Pit a bunch of highly-educated and motivated parents against a school board and you can expect nothing less.

In contrast to yesterday’s posting detailing the reasons and research supporting the elimination of “tracking”, Cherie sent along two detailed messages that oppose the move and challenge the research provided by Principal McKain-Fernandez.  (Both can be read in the continuation at your leisure)

I’m not foolish enough to expound further on this subject from a research perspective.  I’ll let the self-proclaimed Ph.D.s fight this out.  I’ll just say from personal experience there are definite merits on both sides of this argument.  Classes with higher-achieving students were always more interesting and engaging than those without.  But at the same time, classes populated with non-honors students were really uninspiring, soul-sucking experiences.

So, what’s the compromise?

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