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guywithahat
So it looks like the school withheld awards from all students until after college admissions as part of a diversity program (so students wouldn't be judged on achievements during the college process). That's not just immoral, it's really stupid to handicap your students like that when you're the only one doing it
atdrummond
I think the goal with such programmes is to encourage a significant proportion of similar institutions to follow suit. I could see the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (which is similar to TJ) adopting this protocol, even though it’s an anathema to the school’s historical practices and objectives.
dmitrygr
Stealing mail intended for someone else is a felony. The angry parents should just notify the postal inspection service, and watch the fireworks fly.
oneoff786
Stealing mail is not something that happened here
dmitrygr
TFA quoth: “ because TJ senior administrators didn’t distribute the letters of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation to students”
yucky
This is exactly what "equity" policies are for, right? Seems to be working as intended.
oneoff786
I think there is some real truth stretching here for controversy. National merit is based on the PSAT. Not something you take and learn of in senior year during college apps. You get informed directly by the corp, not via your school. The article waffles over whether it was 2 months or 2 weeks.

My guess is that this is not actually about any significant award, but a little memo celebrating the fact that they got the award from the national merit corp a long time ago and already should have known about.

Trashy new org and trashy news.

Edit: and fwiw, this is a basically worthless award. Actually being a finalist can get you hundreds of thousands of dollars of scholarships. But the tier below that won’t get you almost anything.