Judicial Watch Challenges TJ’s Race-Based Admissions Scheme
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed an amici curiae (friend of the court) brief along with the Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) in support of the Coalition for Thomas Jefferson High School’s challenge to race-based admissions policies for the nationally-known public high school that were put in place at in Fairfax County, Virginia (Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board et al.).
TJ Math Teachers Note ‘Lowering of Standards’
On May 31, the public relations team at Fairfax County Public Schools scored a big “hit,” as it’s called in PR, getting the stories of four hand-selected students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology featured in a Washington Post article by education reporter Hannah Natanson, headlined: “Hear from four TJ freshmen admitted under controversial circumstances.”
In the article, Natanson disparaged a “a group of disgruntled parents” that filed a lawsuit against new race-based admissions changes to the school, even though a federal judge, Claude Hilton, ruled earlier this year that the changes are illegal, “patently unconstitutional” and anti-Asian.
Immigrant Mom to School Officials: “Treat Children as Humans, Not Identities”
On March 19th, as I sat in a hospital in India caring for my ailing mother, I got frantic texts from my child about offensive material being shown as part of 8th period mandatory social and emotional learning lessons. My child, who was very upset, sent me the slides and videos that the class was being subjected to. I was shocked to see videos of leaders of a very small but radical leftist 501(c)(4) group.