Commentary Sergio Valdez is the son of Mexican immigrants who attended public school in East Los Angeles in the 1980s. He took Advanced Placement Calculus taught by the exceptional math teacher Jaime Escalante and was an integral part of NASA’s Mars missions. Had Valdez attended high school in Vancouver today, however, none of this would have been possible, due to equity and inclusion policies that have now led to the cancellation of all accelerated math programs in their district. Think about that. Trustees at the second-largest school district in British Columbia—the Vancouver School Board (VSB)—hired an educational consultant who recommended that accelerated math programs be cancelled because, according to her, gifted programs were racist, elitist, and had to go, reported the Globe and Mail in an article on June 16. This stands in stark contrast to the over 500 comments that bombarded the Globe’s news site hours after the article …