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Parents demand principal of America's top public school be fired after she withheld prestigious National Merit Awards from top students to boost 'equity'
DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 31 December 2022 | ALEX HAMMER

Posted on 12/31/2022 2:37:13 PM PST by dennisw

Parents demand principal of America's top public school be fired after she withheld prestigious National Merit Awards from top students to boost 'equity' and 'protect feelings' of kids who didn't win one The decision by brass at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax, Virginia, was reportedly part of a new school strategy

As a result, pupils whom had been named 'commended students' by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. left in the dark to not 'hurt the feelings of' other students

Only learning of the distinction a few months ago in the fall, student and their families are irate - and were seen at the school Friday airing their displeasure

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 12/31/2022 2:37:13 PM PST by dennisw
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What is this world coming too?!


2 posted on 12/31/2022 2:38:52 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: dennisw

Fired, pilloried a d blacklisted.


3 posted on 12/31/2022 2:39:42 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Ah! The natural outcome of the philosophy of participation trophies.

The US education system has been working feverishly for over 50 years to destroy any and all concepts of American Exceptionalism abd Personal Achievement.

Here is further proof. Sad...


4 posted on 12/31/2022 2:47:30 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: dennisw

Locked up in the pillory.


5 posted on 12/31/2022 2:48:50 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: dennisw

They had awards at my granddaughters school...Hell...everyone got an award.


6 posted on 12/31/2022 2:54:10 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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“school...Hell...everyone got an award”

And that does not make our youth stronger in any way.


7 posted on 12/31/2022 2:58:08 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: dennisw

I don’t even like these Asian tax cheats. But they got screwed over here in favor of blacks. So it seems


8 posted on 12/31/2022 2:59:55 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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This is so wrong on so many levels.

I don’t think it should be done this way, but if they are so concerned about offending others, then call in the students to the principal’s office for a private meeting. The students should be informed as soon as the school knows.

Later in the article, it said they had been keeping excellant students out if they were Asian. If the Asian students study and do better, why not find out what they are doing right and teach it to the others ... not turn deserving students away. What bone-headed thinking this is!


9 posted on 12/31/2022 3:01:53 PM PST by JohnEBoy
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“What is this world coming too?!”

It started with participation trophies 20 years ago.


10 posted on 12/31/2022 3:04:50 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: V_TWIN

it was absurd....and very long.


11 posted on 12/31/2022 3:08:31 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: dennisw

The things these liberal retards pull to try and get minorities to look better always end up doing the opposite.


12 posted on 12/31/2022 3:09:00 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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If the concept is not to make others feel un-equal, then make them all equally dumb by closing the school. Saves a lot of effort and money that can better be used to build tiny houses and sex change operations.


13 posted on 12/31/2022 3:09:34 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: dennisw

When will people wake up and stop Tolerating this crap. And not just this. The left is destroying whole countries.


14 posted on 12/31/2022 3:15:36 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: dennisw

Winners and losers. You either got it or you don’t.

Life is tough. Life is tougher when you’re stupid.


15 posted on 12/31/2022 3:18:40 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Just my thoughts)
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Originally from Erie, Pa., Bonitatibus is a big fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and NASCAR. She also plays the clarinet and enjoys spending time with her nieces, who are identical twins.

Ann or Andy?


16 posted on 12/31/2022 3:28:16 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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I prefer the time honored tradition of tar and feathers, then running them out of town.


17 posted on 12/31/2022 3:33:36 PM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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“What is this world coming too?!”

I’ve given up. Tell the parents of this ‘wonderful’, ‘exceptional’, school that it answers to the same monsters as any school in LaHood, and 95% of them would have you committed, if they could find a way.

They deserve what they get, just as ANY ‘conservative’ who continues to use their horrible institutions.


18 posted on 12/31/2022 3:34:15 PM PST by BobL
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So, another question here is whether she impeded any of them getting scholarships.


19 posted on 12/31/2022 3:37:26 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Fired? How about indicted? This woman robbed the recipients of the value of the awards.


20 posted on 12/31/2022 3:38:32 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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