Virginia: Top High School Withholds Smart Kids’ Merit Certificates Because of “Equity”

There is no excuse for being all smart and shit when all these black kids are running around stupid as hell.

It’s white privilege and it’s pure hatred for the color of the skin.

It’s not black kids’ fault they’re stupid. The color of their skin makes them stupid somehow (the science was trying to figure it out but they had to cancel the investigation because someone complained).

Washington Times:

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears is calling for an investigation after parents discovered that administrators at one of the state’s top public high schools failed to notify students that they had received Nation Merit Scholar certificates until months after the prestigious awards were announced.

Some parents say the decision to withhold the certificates, which can give students a substantial boost when applying to college, was driven by an ideological push for equity.

“This is reprehensible,” Ms. Sears tweeted Friday. “I have reached out to the Governor and Attorney General and asked for an investigation.”

“Our children’s education is not a zero-sum game,” she added. “We cannot punish success in order to have ‘equal outcomes at all costs.’”

Parents say Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Principal Ann Bonitatibus, and the director of student services, Brandon Kosatka withheld National Merit Commended Student awards from students and their parents for months, only to unceremoniously alert the students by dropping off certificates at their desks.

Ann Bonitatibus

Shawna Yashar said her son, a senior at the high school, was only notified that he had been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation’s award, which recognizes students in the top 3% of seniors nationwide, in mid-November despite the school principal learning about the award months before.

She said by the time her son had received the certificate, it was too late to mention it on his college applications which were due in late October, according to Asra Nomani, the parent of a former student at the high school who described the details in an article for the Fairfax Times.

Mr. Kosatka told Ms. Yashar that the decision to withhold the information from parents and to present the award to students unceremoniously was intentional.

“We want to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements,” he told her in a call, according to the account published by the newspaper.

Yes, I’m sure that’s totally fine and dandy.

Nothing about the world is based on achievements anyway.

Everything is just about your personality as an individual.

Jews are very wealthy because of their winning personalities, and blacks win sports with their personalities. The same applies everywhere. No one needs to achieve anything ever, and trying to do so is a hate crime.