TJ Failure to Notify Letter of Commendation Winners

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being commended IS the very definition of mediocrity PP. (at TJ). Stop whining and tell your child to aim for NMSF.

Twitter is insane right now over this.

Parents are claiming that they are going to personally sue the principal over this.

Parents claim that their child was denied college admission over this.

What has happened to
Our world?

They should sue. This is information that the school was required to pass on to families.

NMSF helps you qualify for numerous scholarships. Commended might help in some situations. And it can be included on college apps.

It won't take much to pull some basic facts together.

"Commended" is basically saying "If you lived in most parts of the country you would have been a semi finalist, but since you live in a smart state we're going to discriminate against you."

Sure, if by smart you mean privileged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being commended IS the very definition of mediocrity PP. (at TJ). Stop whining and tell your child to aim for NMSF.

Twitter is insane right now over this.

Parents are claiming that they are going to personally sue the principal over this.

Parents claim that their child was denied college admission over this.

What has happened to
Our world?

They should sue. This is information that the school was required to pass on to families.

NMSF helps you qualify for numerous scholarships. Commended might help in some situations. And it can be included on college apps.

It won't take much to pull some basic facts together.

"Commended" is basically saying "If you lived in most parts of the country you would have been a semi finalist, but since you live in a smart state we're going to discriminate against you."

Sure, if by smart you mean privileged.

PP you quoted here.

Ok...yes, some of the people in EVERY state are privileged. Why is a typical student living in Buchanon county, VA more "privileged" and held to a FAR higher standard, than a typical student in Morgantown, WV or Norman, Oklahoma?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is the dumbest non-issue I've seen on this board and that's saying a lot.

[phone]

Asra is a complete asshat. I had 3 kids at TJ - 2 NMSF and 1 Commended. I'm pretty sure they googled to find out what their National Merit status was.

BTW the "Commended" kid is the one at an Ivy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is the dumbest non-issue I've seen on this board and that's saying a lot.

[phone]

Asra is a complete asshat. I had 3 kids at TJ - 2 NMSF and 1 Commended. I'm pretty sure they googled to find out what their National Merit status was.

BTW the "Commended" kid is the one at an Ivy

You sound so humble and very interested in what might make a difference to families besides your own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is the dumbest non-issue I've seen on this board and that's saying a lot.

[phone]

Asra is a complete asshat. I had 3 kids at TJ - 2 NMSF and 1 Commended. I'm pretty sure they googled to find out what their National Merit status was.

BTW the "Commended" kid is the one at an Ivy

You don’t know Commended status until your school notifies you, or, you do the math and determine the selection index number from your score. Not every student is savvy enough to figure that all out. Glad your kids were aware enough to do so, mine was not.
—Signed, lower-middle class mom

[Anonymous]

Let’s be honest with ourselves. Would the TJ staff even discuss not informing the students and their families if they were mostly white, black, hispanic, Native American, or Jewish? Of course they would have informed them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is the dumbest non-issue I've seen on this board and that's saying a lot.

I think this is the dumbest post I've seen on this board and that's saying a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is the dumbest non-issue I've seen on this board and that's saying a lot.

[phone]

Asra is a complete asshat. I had 3 kids at TJ - 2 NMSF and 1 Commended. I'm pretty sure they googled to find out what their National Merit status was.

BTW the "Commended" kid is the one at an Ivy

This is a non-issue and only matters to a person looking to find fault with everything. They're elitist and just angry over admission changes that provide low-income students equal access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is the dumbest non-issue I've seen on this board and that's saying a lot.

[phone]

Asra is a complete asshat. I had 3 kids at TJ - 2 NMSF and 1 Commended. I'm pretty sure they googled to find out what their National Merit status was.

BTW the "Commended" kid is the one at an Ivy

You don’t know Commended status until your school notifies you, or, you do the math and determine the selection index number from your score. Not every student is savvy enough to figure that all out. Glad your kids were aware enough to do so, mine was not.
—Signed, lower-middle class mom

Guess your kids aren't at TJ then since TJ kids were actually notified in early November, a week or two after the information arrived at the school. It wouldn't matter what the school did since they'd find it unacceptable. She hates the principal and is looking to make mountains out of molehills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is the dumbest non-issue I've seen on this board and that's saying a lot.

[phone]

Asra is a complete asshat. I had 3 kids at TJ - 2 NMSF and 1 Commended. I'm pretty sure they googled to find out what their National Merit status was.

BTW the "Commended" kid is the one at an Ivy

This is a non-issue and only matters to a person looking to find fault with everything. They're elitist and just angry over admission changes that provide low-income students equal access.

The principal is a bigoted racist who doesn't like Asian students in a majority Asian school. She doesn't belong at TJ. Cancel her!

[Anonymous]

So this has now been picked up by the NY Post and so is being shared on FB by knee jerk right wing but jobs in flyover country that see the word “equity” and think the accomplishments of white kids are being suppressed to spare the feelings of underachieving minorities.

The irony.

Personally, I think TJ should be abolished. We shouldn’t be using taxpayer dollars to run a prep school for the nation’s most elite universities. That’s what private schools are for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is "city journal. org?" Never heard of it.

Can't address the content, so you attack the site. Typical elitist prick behavior.

It’s published by the Manhattan Institute, a hard right “think tank”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So this has now been picked up by the NY Post and so is being shared on FB by knee jerk right wing but jobs in flyover country that see the word “equity” and think the accomplishments of white kids are being suppressed to spare the feelings of underachieving minorities.

The irony.

Personally, I think TJ should be abolished. We shouldn’t be using taxpayer dollars to run a prep school for the nation’s most elite universities. That’s what private schools are for.

So only private schools should provide world-class education? Isn't that elitist? Defacto privatizing advanced academics mostly benefits white-privileged children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So this has now been picked up by the NY Post and so is being shared on FB by knee jerk right wing but jobs in flyover country that see the word “equity” and think the accomplishments of white kids are being suppressed to spare the feelings of underachieving minorities.

The irony.

Personally, I think TJ should be abolished. We shouldn’t be using taxpayer dollars to run a prep school for the nation’s most elite universities. That’s what private schools are for.

So only private schools should provide world-class education? Isn't that elitist? Defacto privatizing advanced academics mostly benefits white-privileged children.

Pretending Black and Hispanic kids are academic elites just because they attend a “magnet” school where the administrators hide the results benefits no one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is "city journal. org?" Never heard of it.

Can't address the content, so you attack the site. Typical elitist prick behavior.

It’s published by the Manhattan Institute, a hard right “think tank”.

Its reasonable to be skeptical about an internet source no one normal has ever heard of.