Do they lump "Asian" kids in with "white" kids?  Because if you look at the population of many of these programs, there is a  very high proportion of Asian kids.  Or does the TDSB feels it's politically incorrect to single out Asians, but whites are ok?  And many of these Asians are immigrants who have managed to rise to the top with the first Canadian-born generation.  If the TDSB examined why that's happening, they may have the answer as to why it isn't happening with "racialized" students.   Perhaps that's a harder problem to fix.  And not all these Asians are landing here with buckets of money.  The ones in my son's gifted class didn't have much and both parents were working very hard to make a go of it.