Posted on 12/28/2022 4:21:51 PM PST by grundle
For years, administrators at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) concealed students’ National Merit certifications in the name of “equity,” according to a new report.
The damning discovery was published by author and journalist Asra Q. Nomani, whose own son had not been notified of being recognized as a National Merit “Commended Student” in 2020. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation, an Illinois-based nonprofit, awards some 7,500 juniors the $2,500 National Merit Scholarship every March.
While a “Commended Student” distinction does not advance a student into becoming a National Merit “Commended Scholar,” the recognition is deemed helpful for college applications and other scholarship programs. Regardless of the degree of achievement, the TJHSST officials in question — Principal Ann Bonitatibus and Director of Student Services Brandon Kosatka — allegedly withheld informing recognized students and their families.
“I learned — two years after the fact — that National Merit had recognized my son, a graduate of TJHSST's Class of 2021, as a Commended Student in a September 10, 2020, letter that National Merit sent to Bonitatibus. But the principal, who lobbied that fall to nix the school’s merit-based admission test to increase ‘diversity,’ never told us about it,” Nomani wrote in her City Journal piece, adding that parents from previous years reported similar situations.
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“who lobbied that fall to nix the school’s merit-based admission test to increase ‘diversity”
Soooo, are they saying that white people are supremier?
Well if you don’t do that, the orientals will come out on top and the darkies stand there with no award looking sad.
(This is clearly the racist thought process of the principal who decided this)
The Karen involved should be fired and sued into oblivion.
People are individuals with different desires and capabilities. There will never be equity.
The idea is blatantly anti-individual and anti-human.
More “rice eaters” than “milk drinkers”...
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while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
~Jonathan Swift
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It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
~Mark Twain
B’cuz Whitey be gettin’ too many awards.
I was what was then called a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist in my senior year of high school. Back then, it was NOT concealed!! Most of our Arizona high school was white anyway.
I’m sure that that helped me get into MIT—among my other qualifications. If one goes to the University of Arizona, it gets one automatically into the Honors College!! Concealing honors for the sake of bogus “equity” hurts both students and schools!!!!
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Discrimination
Yeah just read “Bell Curve” a well written book re IQ results.
Ot wouldn’t be no right a gradiashun if there wuz no sounds of the jungle in jubilation.
Why not just give America’s #1 victim group all the awards in the name of equity? Why not give them passing grades for failure? Why not jobs they’re not qualified for?
Wait! We already do.
Best thing we ever did was let our kids do Dual Enrollment (at 15). One was homeschooled. They both started at the local community college and graduated HS with Associates degrees. One a Presidential “full ride” to uni.
Both were on the Dean’s list numerous times. My youngest (at 20) is now working on his Masters and building his own house.
I’m glad they got out when they did before all this BS started.
I, now, worry about the “woke” workplace for them.
They got where they are on MERIT.
AND uni is not for everyone. One of my kids used to flip mowers and cars (learning from shop class). He knows he has that to fall back on if economy goes south.
Nothing wrong with trades.
The problem now in corporate America is all jobs are filled by quota, not merit. That means if you are in an overrepresented group, it is tougher to get a job for a given level of competence.
Yep. That’s why I’m worried.
They should use Kung Fu on the libtard for discrimination
Take away all incentive to do well in school and in the future.
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