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Top school principal hides academic awards in name of ‘equity’
New York Post ^ | December 23, 2022 | Asra Q. Nomani

Posted on 12/24/2022 5:22:28 AM PST by Labyrinthos

For years, two administrators at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) have been withholding notifications of National Merit awards from the school’s families, most of them Asian, thus denying students the right to use those awards to boost their college-admission prospects and earn scholarships. This episode has emerged amid the school district’s new strategy of “equal outcomes for every student, without exception.” School administrators, for instance, have implemented an “equitable grading” policy that eliminates zeros, gives students a grade of 50 percent just for showing up, and assigns a cryptic code of “NTI” for assignments not turned in. It’s a race to the bottom.***

But TJ School officials had decided to withhold announcement of the award. Indeed, it turns out that the principal, Ann Bonitatibus, and the director of student services, Brandon Kosatka, have been withholding this information from families and the public for years, affecting the lives of at least 1,200 students over the principal’s tenure of five years. Recognition by National Merit opens the door to millions of dollars in college scholarships and 800 Special Scholarships from corporate sponsors.

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KEYWORDS: arth; bidensfault; blacksupremacy; crt; dei; equity; k12; merit; nationalmerit; obamasfault; racism
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To: Labyrinthos

Sue them for all they have and what they will have for the rest of their lives.


21 posted on 12/24/2022 5:55:12 AM PST by chopperk
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To: Labyrinthos

Just making up for her white guilt

What a jerk


22 posted on 12/24/2022 5:55:27 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Robert DeLong

Geez...I thought I was looking at a photoshop of Obama until I read the poat...abd what’s with that herpes sore?


23 posted on 12/24/2022 5:55:50 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Labyrinthos

Defund public schools!

We have to burn the village to save it.


24 posted on 12/24/2022 5:57:03 AM PST by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: V_TWIN

So when is the Pitch Fork and Torch Party at this B!tch’s house? Protest, make noise Get Her Attention.

Any bets which side LEOs will be on?


25 posted on 12/24/2022 5:57:05 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Labyrinthos

The reason for inequality is inequality


26 posted on 12/24/2022 5:57:37 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: Labyrinthos

Right, Asian students who worked their @$$e$ off to qualify to top colleges and these A-holes cost them. So, they cannot go to MIT because these liberal A-holes did this, and they wind up at Podunk University State College of Dumb and Dummer.


27 posted on 12/24/2022 6:02:00 AM PST by RetiredArmy (POLITICIANS ARE NOT THE ANSWER!! Jesus Christ is THE Way, THE Truth & THE Life. Only by Him!!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Merit denier.


28 posted on 12/24/2022 6:06:09 AM PST by Mogger
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To: Labyrinthos

Hang them personally!


29 posted on 12/24/2022 6:12:30 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Labyrinthos
These filthy, bitter hypocrites at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, principal, Ann Bonitatibus, and the director of student services, Brandon Kosatka, need to have every penny they've ever been paid that's more than the lowest paid teacher, confiscated and redistributed.

They want to claim "equity", start with their paycheck.

30 posted on 12/24/2022 6:14:44 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Labyrinthos

Bookmark


31 posted on 12/24/2022 6:15:57 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Desron13

Exactly. When you throw in Loudon County, Northern VA has some screwed up (I’m being kind) public school administrators.


32 posted on 12/24/2022 6:20:08 AM PST by Fair Paul
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To: Vision

A “meritless society” is a “G-odless society” and destined for death, decay and destruction from both within and without.


33 posted on 12/24/2022 6:21:19 AM PST by Four of Six
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To: Vision

Pinochet was right about commies
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34 posted on 12/24/2022 6:21:27 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Labyrinthos
Did they do similarly for athletics? Did they have open sign-up, no cut and must play rules for their teams like Little League does?

Or did they have try outs for the teams, with the best players playing, the middle players riding the bench and the worst cut from the team and invited to be equipment managers passing out towels?

Did they pass out letter jackets and end of season awards? Did they have big team pictures in the yearbook?

35 posted on 12/24/2022 6:23:29 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Yep- and in the name of ‘equity for all’, why do the administrators make more money than the lower level employees?

They should put their f-ing money where their low life mouths are and either reduce their pay or increase everyone else’s.


36 posted on 12/24/2022 6:33:07 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: bk1000

“You can’t elevate stupid people, you can only hold back smarter people. “

Truth. Two other classmates and I were in Gifted and Talented classes in 2nd and 3rd grade. We were put in a corner by ourselves, given books to read while the teachers spent their entire classes working with the remedial children. We had ZERO instruction and absolutely no interaction with any of the teachers. By mid 3rd grade, we were at the same academic level as the regular classmates. The three of us were reading at 9-10th grades and were far ahead of the other classmates in math and science before that.

Mission accomplished.


37 posted on 12/24/2022 6:38:45 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: T.B. Yoits

The “equity” the principal deserves is hard agricultural labor.

The only cure for the woke is the Mao version of a “cultural revolution”.


38 posted on 12/24/2022 6:47:45 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

These days smart and motivated kids can go on the Internet and master any subject they wish—at their own pace.

Public school is a waste for smart kids.

It is babysitting for dumb kids.


39 posted on 12/24/2022 6:49:38 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Labyrinthos
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) have been withholding notifications of National Merit awards from the school’s families, most of them Asian,

She is an evil bitch BUT really these Asian families talk to each other. They should have gotten suspicious and contacted the people who run the National Merit awards. Their phone number is on the internet. They should sue this heinous principal. The school district must fire her!

40 posted on 12/24/2022 6:51:09 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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