Social Stratification in Schools

In all schools and all colleges and universities within the United States, students receive grades; is this a form of socially stratifying students?

The grading system in schools, colleges, and universities can be a form of socially stratifying students. They have special classes for students who excel and are elite students, the gift ones. Then, there are the underachievers, the ones who fallen behind and are grouped to together and away from the rest of the students. The grading system is to prove the student followed the academic curriculum and passed the requirements of the educational standards. It can segregate students into different classes by the GPA earned. The elite students congregate among their peers of the same caliber as would the other different social status groups would do. I believe stratification of students is caused more by the income and lifestyle characteristics of the group of people.

The student’s home life, parental guidance, relationship of authority figures, and size of the family all have effect on the student’s effort to success at learning. There is a relationship between the means of a student’s achievements and their social stratification. The better resources and support, the better a student has to earning higher grades. This will in turn, promote the student to a higher class with better opportunities for higher education and better opportunities in the business world for advancements.

Belonging to a higher class of any social groups, will always have advantages of opportunities over its lower class or classes. Yes, the grading system is a form of stratification, separating the elite and all the layers below to classify a students’ hierarchy with the entire student