My children attend a high-poverty school, so I relate to the pain and frustration of this author. I think things just got a little muddled in the delivery and things were lobbed hither and yon. The most salient point was the one about the student who got to miss school to work on his invention, IMO.
My younger child is in the "general ed" section of his school right now and I keep an eye on things, because he is given some particular privileges and oportunities due to his abilities that could be seen as unfair. He also happens to be socioeconomically very different from 90% of the kids in his class. It's tricky.
