So if they use schools in richer neighbourhoods for specialized programs, that's discrimination because travel is too much of a burden on disadvantaged students from other districts who qualify and want to go to the specialized schools. But if they put specialty programs in schools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, it's a problem because the students travelling there from richer backgrounds skew the demographics and cost the local kids their special benefits. (See: https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/plan-to-bus-in-gifted-students-to-parkdale-school-results-in-loss-of-extra-funding/article36590478/)

It's starting to look like the activists at the TDSB just have an axe to grind against any program that's better than mediocrity, no matter where it's localated.