When I was in grade school, we were in groups through the early grades. Now, it may have been the teacher...airplanes, jets and rockets. I had the same teacher for 3 years, grades 2 through 5 (accelerated through 4). And each group got material geared to their level. You could move groups, you were not stuck. But we were in a group with material geared to our level. What happened to that? You don't have to go with the obvious categories, but yellow, green and violet groups.
I am a big fan of either streaming classes within a school (current situation for my kids) or streaming groups within a class (my primary school experience which appears to be very similar to yours). I don’t think streaming schools within the education system (my high school experience) is an intentionally racist or elitist practice but the commute is time wasting and it’s much more difficult to maintain friendships outside of school because students attend from a wide geographical area.
