Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) blasted
Fairfax County
Public Schools
Tuesday for what he called “woke racism” the day after he
expanded an investigation
into Thomas Jefferson High School to the whole school district.
“At the end of the day, we want to demand excellence and we want our students to not have this ‘war on merit,'”
Miyares said
in an appearance on Fox and Friends. “What we have seen, unfortunately, in some areas of the country is what I call woke racism, which is reverse discrimination against the wrong groups in those individuals’ minds.”
VIRGINIA AG EXPANDS CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION INTO FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The Republican attorney general’s comments come the week after he announced a civil rights investigation into Thomas Jefferson High School, a magnet school in Fairfax County, after reports surfaced that the school did not notify students who were recognized as commended students by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation out of concerns it would be unfair to the students who had not received the recognition.
On Monday, Miyares expanded the investigation to the entire school district following reports that two other high schools had failed to inform students of the same recognition.
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“We’re having this investigation of the Virginia Human Rights Act to determine whether there’s a pattern and practice going on because equity without excellence is emptiness,” Miyares said in the interview.
In addition to investigating the school district’s failures to inform students of National Merit recognition, Miyares’s office plans to investigate Thomas Jefferson High School’s revised admissions protocols, which critics have said are discriminatory against Asian-American students.
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In his Fox interview, Miyares compared the treatment of Asian students to the treatment of Jewish students in the 1920s and 1930s by elite colleges and universities.
“What we’ve seen across the country is that Asian American students are [in] many ways treated the same way Jewish American students were treated in the 1920s and 1930s,” Miyares said. “We had elite institutions that determine, ‘hey, we have too many Jewish American children in our schools. We’re going to make sure we cap how many are allowed to attend.’ And that’s what you saw Ivy League schools and other schools do in the 1920s. It was wrong 100 years ago to do it to Jewish American children. It’s wrong to do it to Asian American children now.”
