“My main issue with HCC is that it offers to some kids what you could be offering to everybody,” says Matt Halvorson, the parent of a fifth grader in general ed and the publisher of Rise Up For Students, a blog commenting on equity in Seattle Schools. “We can do differentiated learning and give everyone valuable experiences that validate their genius and recognize them as special, which everybody is. HCC, as it is, exacerbates existing gaps along racial and socioeconomic lines. If some kids are benefiting but it’s also having a harmful impact, then I don’t see how it’s something we should perpetuate.”