Virginia parents outraged after SECOND high school scraps merit awards to push ... trends now

Furious parents are speaking out after another Virginia school allegedly scrapped high school merit awards to advance 'equity' policies.  

Carrie Lukas and Asra Nomani spoke out about Langley High School's decision to withhold handing out the awards that recognize students for academics ahead of college applications. 

The school was the second in the state to hand out the awards months later than usual. 

'We now have two high schools in the same school district - in the school district that has just been nakedly political, nakedly focused on things that are not about advancing kids' interests, but about this idea of equal outcomes for everyone,' Lukas told Fox News host Ashley Strohmier.

'They want them all to be equal. That means they don't want the top 3%.' 

Kimberly Greer, Langley High School principal, apologized for the delay to some parents in an email last week while informing them their student received the award. 

'I am delighted to let you know that your student was designated as committed a student by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation,' she wrote.

'I must apologize that certificates were not distributed to these students in the usual way this past fall. I am deeply sorry for this mistake.' 

Lukas didn't take the apology lightly and accused school officials of not wanting their children to succeed. 

'What does that mean for those kids? It means that the school doesn't want them to succeed, or certainly the superintendent and Fairfax County Public School Board doesn't,' Lukas said. 

Meanwhile, Nomani called the delay a 'tragedy' on more than just a local level.  

'On a national scale in terms of this war on merit that's happening, but in the personal lives of kids,' Nomani told the news outlet. 'They're waiting right now for answers from colleges, and there was this critical data point that was missing, which is this amazing honor of being in the top 3% of kids nationwide.'