
*In the summary I read they went school by school and explained each failure. *The district did "celebrate" by press release, the NM semi-finalists. As did my kid's FCPS high school. Commended students aren't eligible to apply for the award, just like all the other kids who took the SAT, it's just that their scores were a little higher, but not high enough. NMSC should get rid of commended status. It's pointless. The district is bad because they didn't properly acknowledge commended students is a personal complaint, not one that requires national media attention and investigations. Why should actual semi-finalists have to share the spot light with students who were only acknowledged for participating? *NMSC should 100% give out their own awards. |
That is weird. I would expect TJ commended students to understand the cutoffs and have better things to list in a college application. The West Po and Annandale kids are the ones who might not realize they earned a commendation and might actually benefit from including the award in their college application. Also, both of those schools would have few to no National Merit semifinalists and only a small number of commended kids, so it's a much bigger deal there. |
Including those schools in the investigation doesn't fit the narrative that the AG is pushing |
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Sure. I just think it's legitimately bad for them to have withheld notice to the very small number of commended students at the higher FARMS schools. For TJ kids, while the administration ought to have notified the students promptly of their status, it's not that big of a deal. |
And yet other schools in other school districts notify their students of their commended status (not all of them very quickly). |
It’s a PSAT score and nothing else. Colleges barely care about SATs, but you think PSATs are a big deal? |
How do you know that? Do you have any source? |
Exactly. |
That doesn't make it necessary for schools to deal with it. NMSC should just email/notify students directly. |
Neither, given that it was a third party request. Sad that Republicans can't find anything better to do. |
Essentially I understand the findings to be that nothing malicious/ill intentioned was uncovered.
Leads me to believe that FCPS is incompetent and unable to successfully do a simple task of notifying students of an award. They will probably go hire someone who’s sole job is to notify students now instead of relying on one of the thousands of other Gatehouse employees or administrators. |
+100 This isn't a school-based award. The CORPORATION should handle the notification themselves. |
That proves NOTHING! And that's exactly what this was -- A BIG FAT NOTHING-BURGER! |
I wouldn't base competence based on a random, extra request from an external organization. These people were probably busy doing the actual things they were hired to do. |