While it's an unfulfillable hash pipe dream ever to be able to consider a program for kids who are "differently smarted" as anything but elite and exclusionary, the real truth behind the institutional racism of America's public school system lies not with programs like this but with the system itself.

Until we allocate money and resources enough at all levels to allow the low opportunity kids the same chance to develop into "gifted" students as high opportunity kids, studies of established programs like this will always present unreliable conclusions.

Poor students of color less likely to be in Seattle's gifted program

The 1,300 students served by the Accelerated Progress Program don't match the racial and economic makeup of Seattle's public schools, the report found. White students make up 70 percent of the program's students, but only 40 percent of the overall district population.

"Some of the belief structures and language used to describe the students and the program contribute to a perception of the program as elitist, exclusionary and even racist," the report stated.