Gifted and talented programs funnel money towards a disproportionate share of white students, Tracie McMillan explains in The White Bonus.
I still remember the the first time I heard about “gifted” kids. I was fifteen, and taking part in a summer program for “gifted” Michigan high school students. Most of my classmates in the program had been “gifted” their whole lives. It was my first time, though. I went to school in a rural, low-income district without the funding to run gifted programs. Being gifted, I figured, usually took money—and I was proud to have earned that title without it.
A former Thames principal and assistant principal tell me they remember a district practice in the 2000s called a “special visa,” granting students permission to attend schools outside of their neighborhood. The district administrator who managed attendance zones in that era remembered the “special visa,” too.
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