<p>Oh, come on! The OP’s school is going to have three levels of instruction. How many levels do you think a school needs? This isn’t merging the varsity with the junior varsity, and it’s not making the B+ students take special ed classes. </p>
<p>What if the OP’s school had five layers of tracking before, and now it was proposing to have only four? Would everyone still be screaming bloody murder about it? Would you put your social capital on the line and march in to your school board demanding five layers of tracking? Four? Is there some optimal degree of tracking? Does school size matter?</p>