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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My sons (two commended, one finalist) received their notifications directly. I guess it’s because, as a homeschool, we are “the school.” It hadn’t occurred to me that an institutional school could prevent a student’s learning about his results.
Sue them personally.
Sue the school, the district, and anyone else “in the know”.
In the name of a meritless communist society .
Underlying ideological equity is envy, and that's why bureaucrats, etc. have withheld the knowledge of meritorious awards earned by the successful.
“Sue them personally. After firing them. “
Absolutely. They have damaged many children due to a misguided notion of “equal outcomes for everyone”. We’ve seen how this works. You can’t elevate stupid people, you can only hold back smarter people. Why would they hold back smart kids so that the dumb ones would look good? It doesn’t work and the stupid ones don’t care.
And yet these administrators probably demand merit pay increases.
This is so so evil. And most of the exceptional students there are not white. They are Asian. Chinese and Indian. Sons and daughters of immigrants.
This is who this malicious, demented white principal SCREWED out of scholarship money.
“..Sue them personally. ..After firing them....”
^THIS^
Get new administrators that aren’t woke, ball-less wonders.
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.
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Lawsuit time. Big lawsuit time.
My school told me about it and then had the nerve to brag about it (having virtually nothing to do with my academic success, that was my mom and dad).
It really is, or at least was, supposed to be worth something for admissions.
So sue their a**es off, personally, if possible.
Article and the emails read like Kosatka is the culprit. And he admitted doing it. Attempted conversion of/intentional deprivation of intellectual property.
I bet if the students had won a sports trophy or even lettered, the school would let the students know despite “equity”.
Libtard poster child.
Thomas Jefferson? Obviously a racist school to begin with.
All seriousness aside, how do you even fight this principal's idiocy? Hopefully, one if these days, the principal is on the operating table...and one of her low-intelligence, affirmative action, non-merit students is the doctor doing her heart operation.
These people need to face real punishment, not slaps upon their wrists.
“Top school principal hides academic awards in name of ‘equity’”
Seriously, how the heck does she think this school even became a “top school”...the pea-brains in the school?
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