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While our nation's elite are able to send their children to expensive schools where they get the best education money can buy, they have allowed schools for the masses to become infiltrated [...]
>> reporter: that's because students in sixth, seventh and eighth grade honor classes were primarily white while in regular classes students primarily latino and african-american, among them jennifer smith's daughter. >> if she was getting honors why wasn't she put in an honors program? >> she was high 90s every class. i couldn't understand it. no one was pushing her to go into honors. >> reporter: it's called tracking. separating children based on academic abilities. but in long beach, the racial disparity in gaeds six became hard for educator to ignore. >> what is the danger of tracking some...