Twice Exceptional
Twice exceptional students are both gifted and disabled—often overlooked, misunderstood, or underserved in schools. This tag explores how collective punishment and systemic barriers impact 2E learners.
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Summer school blues: on being excluded from the gifted program
In the spring of 2018, I applied to the Vancouver School Board’s summer Gifted/Challenge Program for my twins, Jeannie and Robin, who had just finished kindergarten and were, in different ways, already outpacing the curriculum. Robin was already captivated by the ancient world—particularly Egypt, with its pyramids, its rituals, its mythologies of death and continuity,…