I is yoh new prinspull.
Posted on 01/08/2023 9:49:13 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
While Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid claims the principal at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology withheld National Merit awards from students in a “one-time human error,” parents at two local high schools got a Friday and Saturday night surprise.
The revelations are emerging after school district principals scrambled to a meeting Wednesday afternoon with the superintendent, after Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced a civil rights investigation into the controversy. Just like at TJHSST, the new revelations appear to impact many Asian American students – one focus of the investigation.
In an email, obtained by the Fairfax County Times, Langley High School Principal Kim Greer pressed send on a mea culpa at 9:29:30 p.m. on Friday night, confusing, agitating and angering parents and students already on edge during the tumultuous college admissions season.
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They must have hired Diana Moon Glampers Equity Inc.
Could this have been a conspiracy?
This is so wrong on so many levels, Lawsuits should prevail and be numerous. These students suffered actual monetary damages that are quantifiable (especially be an aggressive plaintiffs attorney.) A class action could easily be made.
If you can call the "equity" movement a conspiracy, then yes.
"the FCPS superintendent signed a contract of about nine months, paying a controversial contractor, Mutiu Fagbayi, and his company Performance Fact Inc., based in Oakland, Calif., $455,000 for “equity” training that includes a controversial “Equity-centered Strategic Plan” with this goal: “equal outcomes for every student, without exception.”"
I honestly don’t understand this at all.
Juniors in high school can choose to take the PSAT, if they score high enough they can become National Merit Scholars which can qualify them for reduced or even free tuition to many colleges. You are competing against all the other Juniors in your state that are taking the test that year.
First of all... what does this have to do with the high school?!?!?!?
This process has ZERO to do with the high school, except that “might” be the place you choose to take the test (you can take it in a variety of places)
And I don’t see how the high school could “keep” you from knowing what you scored, since the scores are available directly to the students online.
And how would the high school benefit in ANY way from withholding the scores? it is a state-wide competition and withholding the score info from some who took the test at the school and qualified as a commended scholar, or finalist or semi-finalist wouldn’t affect anyone else’s ranking what so ever.
In an email, obtained by the Fairfax County Times, Langley High School Principal Kim Greer pressed send on a mea culpa at 9:29:30 p.m. on Friday night, confusing, agitating and angering parents and students already on edge during the tumultuous college admissions season."pressed send on a mea culpa" -- What are they trying to say? "Confusing," indeed.
These authors sure weren't National Merit Award winners.
Yes the students got their scores (1980’s) however if there were any awards the school announced them. So I’m guessing the school has to apply for the award on the student’s behalf, but I’ll admit I’m not sure and things may have changed since then.
Juniors in high school can choose to take the PSAT, if they score high enough they can become National Merit Scholars which can qualify them for reduced or even free tuition to many colleges. You are competing against all the other Juniors in your state that are taking the test that year.
First of all... what does this have to do with the high school?!?!?!?
This process has ZERO to do with the high school, except that “might” be the place you choose to take the test (you can take it in a variety of places)
And I don't see how the high school could “keep” you from knowing what you scored, since the scores are available directly to the students online.
And how would the high school benefit in ANY way from withholding the scores? it is a state-wide competition and withholding the score info from some who took the test at the school and qualified as a commended scholar, or finalist or semi-finalist wouldn't affect anyone else’s ranking what so ever.
That's why it's not just intentional, it took active effort to hide the results. This was no "one time" error. /p>
I graduated high school in 1964. The English nun told me she gave me a B instead of an A because I had just transferred there and “we didn’t know you.”
Whether you get an award varies by state, different cutoffs by a few points.
Short step to varying by school district.
If the high school doesn’t notify you that you are a merit scholar you won’t ask for the money and you won’t include it in your CV for college
The high school principals we’re putting their thumb on the scale
The question isn’t knowing what you scored, the question is knowing whether you earned National Merit commendation or above. You can’t necessarily tell that merely by knowing your score, but the National Merit organization does notify the schools of which of their students qualified. It was this notification that the school officials withheld. This is clearly actionable. Some students undoubtedly qualified for scholarships at schools they could have attended but didn’t because they weren’t notified, which of course would alter their entire life trajectory. These officials should be sued into oblivion. In some sense they robbed the lives of these students.
I really enjoyed that story.
I worked with people that lived around Fairfax, and they had intense interest in their kids getting to top universities. This won’t settle well with that crowd.
I is yoh new prinspull.
Makes you wonder how much longer they’ll be “Home of the Saxons”.
I wonder if the teachers are allowed to assign that story...
That makes no sense whatsoever. It must be missing words.
I have 4 kids this age and 3 of them have taken the PSAT in the last year or two.
Their school had nothing to do with the process. You take the test at a testing site of your choice (they choose a local college) and are notified of your results directly, along with what this years cut off is for (commended, semi-finalist, and finalist). This is all accessible at anytime by the student online. No information goes through any school. And no school has any ability what-so-ever to withhold anything from anyone. And in fact schools use the number of national merit scholars as a bragging right. None of this makes any sense.
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