This not only hurts high performing kids by limiting their future, but it also hurts poor performing kids who are not given the help the need when their failures go unacknowledged. Please, get your kids out of these schools. Their goals for your kids are not your goals.
Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has slammed the decision by seven Fairfax County schools to withhold from their students whether they received a prestigious national merit recognition as ‘maniacal’.
Only awarded to 50,000 of 1.5million high-schoolers who score well on the PSATS, the prestigious award can help students compete for scholarships, honors accolades, and college admissions.
The schools – which include America’s best-performing public school, Thomas Jefferson High – have explained their decision to keep the results secret as a form of ‘equity.’ They insist it’s part of a new school strategy meant to provide ‘equal outcomes for every student, without exceptions.’ – but parents are furious.
As a result of the deception, pupils whom had been named ‘commended students’ by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation were purposely left in the dark so as to not ‘hurt the feelings of’ other students.
[…]The admission by the schools of failing to notify their students of any national merit recognition they may have achieved means students will miss important college scholarship and admissions deadlines.
This is just pathetic. There should be no place in education, public or private, for teachers or administrators who would diminish the academic excellence of their students. They seem to have completely lost their mission.
The only thing public schools are teaching flawlessly is “Least Common Denominator” to kids.
No, Jason. They also do a good job of teaching “How To Give a B***job” and/or “How To Deliver Cunnilingus”. Believe it or not, they also provide pictures.
That’s why they don’t have time to teach reading, math, US history……..
> They insist it’s part of a new school strategy meant to provide ‘equal outcomes for every student, without exceptions.
I think I can add that to my list of most stupidly arrogant things ‘educators’ have ever said. They can try to guarantee equal input (I know that is not possible either, but a school could strive towards it), but equal outcomes? ‘Everyone must get a 75% on this test! If you don’t, we will still grade all tests as 75%. ‘ Or ‘Everyone must get the same score on the SATs!’ Huh? The hubris of these educators while parading their own ignorance is truly mind boggling.