It started at Thomas Jefferson STEM School. Now multiple Fairfax schools admit to withholding Award notification from parents, resulting in untold scholarships and admissions lost.
"A review of our own practices" is weasel-speak for "We better stop eagerly following what we were told to do by the Superintendent of Schools and now save our asses by getting those notifications out."
Once is a mistake. Eight is a policy.
No doubt in the name of Equity.