Top Virginia high school accused of withholding academic awards for ‘equity’
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
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| 0:00.0 | And this is for, this is from the everybody gets a participation trophy category. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a top-ranked school, allegedly delayed, notifying students of their national academic |
| 0:11.2 | honors in the name of equity. |
| 0:15.4 | Some of these kids were notified that they won or they were honored too late to put it |
| 0:20.6 | on their college admittance resume. |
| 0:23.9 | Which is awful because getting into certain colleges is every single bit a competition. |
| 0:28.6 | For example, the United States Military Academy at West Point, which I received an offer |
| 0:32.7 | of admission to, it was a very fierce competition to get into that school. |
| 0:37.1 | I had to work my tail off every single day. |
| 0:39.9 | And I badgered the ladies at the Secretary desk at my small Christian high school in |
| 0:46.1 | Muncie almost every day at one month of February on whether they would get my academic |
| 0:52.0 | honors stuff to me so that I could get it to West Point. |
| 0:54.2 | I understand exactly what's going on that, oh, well, you know, there's someone who's |
| 0:58.4 | not as smart as you and you don't want them to feel bad. |
| 1:01.4 | So we're not going to give you your award. |
| 1:04.5 | It's so pathetic how much we are enshrining the value of mediocrity in this country over |
| 1:11.2 | meritocracy. |
| 1:12.2 | Is the dumbing down of America? |
| 1:14.1 | So the school said they wanted to recognize students as individuals, not their achievements. |
| 1:19.9 | As if the two could be separated, aren't there achievements who they are as individuals? |
| 1:25.0 | There were several individuals in my high school, several individuals in my college. |
| 1:28.8 | Heck, when I was on the factory floor at Draper, several other men and women who were far |
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