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Throughout any academic career, “tracking” is a prevalent separation of students. Tracking is the process of segregating students who may be brighter and/or intellectual from those who may not be equally as “book smart”. Like any segregating factor, students who are on the right side of the process, the honors students receive many benefits and resources, while students on the lower end get the short end of the stick. Tracking is a problem at Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU), because it divides a student body, it puts labels on and categorizes students, and it gives only a handful of kids the benefit of the doubt. A college campus is, at the end of the day, one place, one institution, one body, However, tracking makes it more complex than that. The university puts students on intellectually different levels. It’s all right to try and determine good roommates for a student via a housing application, because that’s just making sure that they are comfortable when they get to school. But to separate students, because of their intellectual prowess makes the university feel more like it’s high school. On the outside, every OWU student is a Battling Bishop, it’s just that some Bishops are smarter than others. OWU is a broadly diverse campus full of many different types of unique people. To label these people as “honors students” or if not an honors student, “jock” or “meathead” completely takes away .what’s special about having a diverse campus. Nobody ever tells anybody their clique to their face, or shouts it out to them as an insult when they walk by, but it is talked about behind closed doors, and the lines are pretty sharply drawn, even though they may seem nonexistent. The university might as just well convert the dorms into humongous frat houses, and call them dorms Certain dorms at OWU have more resources, or luxuries, than other dorms because of the “tracking” system. Welch Hall, or a.k.a. “the Honors Dorm”, is “…coed by suite. Each suite contains two double occupancy bedrooms and a shared bath. Rooms are equipped with built-in desks and dressers. There is a computer lab, kitchenette, game room, and TV lounge on the ground floor. Welch Hall maintains a 24-hour quiet policy.” (http://reslife.owu.edu/residentialLivingOptions.html), while it’s interconnected neighbor, Thompson Hall, has “…two-person rooms, and bath facilities are shared by all of the residents on the floor. Additional study lounges are on the second and third floors, while a kitchen and recreation room are located on the first floor.” (http://reslife.owu.edu/residentialLivingOptions.html) The inequity is obvious. Welch Hall students have everything Thompson Hall students have, and more, because they’re the “honors” students. . Also, students who are in the honors program get to sign up for honors classes and have priority hen signing up for tutorials. Tracking is an issue for OWU students, because it disunites them, it gives some students a bad name, while also giving some students an advantage. Like racism, sexism, and segregation against homosexuals, tracking needs to be eliminated in schools. There has got to be some way that we can advance students who may be more intellectually apt without saying that they’re better than others. Until then, hopefully the institution of tracking will diminish over time.
Throughout any academic career, “tracking” is a prevalent separation of students. Tracking is the process of segregating students who may be brighter and/or intellectual from those who may not be equally as “book smart”. Like any segregating factor, students who are on the right side of the process, the honors students receive many benefits and resources, while students on the lower end get the short end of the stick. Tracking is a problem at Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU), because it divides a student body, it puts labels on and categorizes students, and it gives only a handful of kids the benefit of the doubt.
ReplyDeleteA college campus is, at the end of the day, one place, one institution, one body, However, tracking makes it more complex than that. The university puts students on intellectually different levels. It’s all right to try and determine good roommates for a student via a housing application, because that’s just making sure that they are comfortable when they get to school. But to separate students, because of their intellectual prowess makes the university feel more like it’s high school. On the outside, every OWU student is a Battling Bishop, it’s just that some Bishops are smarter than others.
OWU is a broadly diverse campus full of many different types of unique people. To label these people as “honors students” or if not an honors student, “jock” or “meathead” completely takes away .what’s special about having a diverse campus. Nobody ever tells anybody their clique to their face, or shouts it out to them as an insult when they walk by, but it is talked about behind closed doors, and the lines are pretty sharply drawn, even though they may seem nonexistent. The university might as just well convert the dorms into humongous frat houses, and call them dorms
Certain dorms at OWU have more resources, or luxuries, than other dorms because of the “tracking” system. Welch Hall, or a.k.a. “the Honors Dorm”, is “…coed by suite. Each suite contains two double occupancy bedrooms and a shared bath. Rooms are equipped with built-in desks and dressers. There is a computer lab, kitchenette, game room, and TV lounge on the ground floor. Welch Hall maintains a 24-hour quiet policy.” (http://reslife.owu.edu/residentialLivingOptions.html), while it’s interconnected neighbor, Thompson Hall, has “…two-person rooms, and bath facilities are shared by all of the residents on the floor. Additional study lounges are on the second and third floors, while a kitchen and recreation room are located on the first floor.” (http://reslife.owu.edu/residentialLivingOptions.html) The inequity is obvious. Welch Hall students have everything Thompson Hall students have, and more, because they’re the “honors” students. . Also, students who are in the honors program get to sign up for honors classes and have priority hen signing up for tutorials.
Tracking is an issue for OWU students, because it disunites them, it gives some students a bad name, while also giving some students an advantage. Like racism, sexism, and segregation against homosexuals, tracking needs to be eliminated in schools. There has got to be some way that we can advance students who may be more intellectually apt without saying that they’re better than others. Until then, hopefully the institution of tracking will diminish over time.