“Tracks can create a self-fulfilling prophesy of behavior in students and play an important role in defining the type of person they believe themselves to be” (Ansalone, 2009) (Ansalone 2010) Page 12.

This has been one of the texts that I found easier to read as an ELL, but one of the hardest to reflect upon. So I’m just going to make varied comments related to the quote I chose and some other references:
1. I kept waiting for the reference to gender base tracking, because this is the one I’m most familiar with. At a particular school in Colombia, they used to separate boys and girls during Math, Humanities and Language Arts classes, as soon as they started puberty or were close to it. So the equivalent of Middle and High school at that school was a gender tracking examples. No other gender was considered. Teachers used to swear that it worked, because it lowered the hormonal effect and their classes were great. They also had male teachers for the boys and Female teachers for the girls. Any thoughts?

2. This whole idea of school being responsible for the future work force and the chain production of workers, has been explored in many cinematography. A few that I recall and recommend in case you haven’t already seen them are: Gattaca (1997), “The Wall” a 1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film directed by Alan Parker with animated segments by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album of the same name; and finally “La Educación Prohibida” or the Forbidden Education, a 2012 independent documentary that questions the logic of modern schooling. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFzYFuP4fL8
3. When teachers are able to plan for differentiations, embedding students’ perspectives into their lesson plans, a completely different kind of learning happens. One that does not make workforce, perhaps, but one that allows beings to coexist find themselves and simply be. Unfortunately, teachers are not allowed have the proper amount to plan such lessons. Thus of course they prefer tracks.
4.One additional thing: Who is making these classifications?