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What would Thomas Jefferson say about Virginia's National Merit failure?

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The public recently learned that Thomas Jefferson High School, an elite public magnet school, decided not to tell students when they’ve been honored as National Merit Scholars. We now know that several other schools in Virginia have been doing the same thing, apparently reluctant to highlight the…

Jefferson notedTo give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business.

To know his rights; to exercise with order & justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciaries of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence with candor & judgment. At times, Jefferson seemed to suggest that talent was inborn, although equally to be found among the children of the poor, the middling, and the rich. His scientific racism is infamous, and rightly so. But men, even great men such as Jefferson, are not angels. And it is a focus on Jefferson’s failings that helps ideologues to attack merit and claim that they’re merely fighting racism, to the detriment of so many poor and middle-class children in Virginia.

 

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Honestly the only thing those 'honors' show is that students are good at memorization and regurgitation. Not that they are intelligent... just that they are able to regurgitate facts.

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