Posted on 12/25/2022 6:29:44 PM PST by chuckee
Yep, those students are due reparations from the administrators...and not the school district. The taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for it.
Coddling slow minded people isn’t equity.
Reverse evolution.
Indeed it’s a trend now
The writer claims, "On September 16 of this year, National Merit sent a letter to Bonitatibus listing 240 students recognized as Commended Students or Semi-Finalists. . . . But homeroom teachers didn’t distribute the awards until Monday, November 14..."
Yet, my last post links to the list of 2023 Semifinalists on the school's website back in September. (Names of semifinalists are also published in newspapers.)
The writer claims the school has been withholding notification from the Commended Students so that lower scorers won't feel bad.
But... that can't be the reason. Semifinalists have higher scores than Commended Students. And the school proudly announced the Semifinalists.
The school system also posted the names of its 2022 Semifinalists, 2022 Winners, 2021 Scholarship Recipients, and so on. If this story were about hurt feelings, why would the school hide notifications from the Commended Students but proudly announce the names of students who scored even higher or won scholarships?
Someone dropped the ball with the paperwork, that's all, and the writer wants to make it sound political. Just noticed these emails show the principal signed the certificates in time. But, the department charged with distributing the large number of certificates delayed handing them out.
Now, this story has gone viral, and people are having a kneejerk reaction to it.
You are giving it much more attention than I would. My only point was that the National Merit scholarship was a great thing for my daughter in one post, and that anything can be backdated, in another post.
Yeah, I really did. (lol) I guess I was bored yesterday.
I wasn't arguing with anything you posted. Sometimes, I just reply to a post with more information for the thread, partly so that I don't forget what I found out about a story.
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