Fairfax County, Virginia public schools tell parents not to hire tutors because it is unfair to kids whose parents can’t afford them

American Thinker ^ | 08/12/2020 | Thomas Lifson

[KC_Lion]

That is the "Public School" thing I think I will read today.

Always, ALWAYS revert to the lowest common denominator.

One kid is stupid so that means the whole class has to be taught on their level.

[VastRWCon]

Unfair??? hahahahahaha!!!

[ridesthemiles]

SOOOO—School officials are openly discriminating against TUTORS???

[SMARTY]

Now-THERE’S some blue-ribbon, world-class, industrial strength BS!

[Yaelle]

If you can afford good shoes / a boat / a vacation / steak / a new car
DONT BUY THEM. Because someone else can’t. And if that poorer person gets some money, why, I’m SURE they would never wish to buy something you might not afford. How can we live in a world where being rich is better than being poor? How dare we expect people to attempt to work hard to make money!!!

[Vendome]

Its unfair to those who cant afford them?

Then maybe those parents should work harder to get their children a better education or become heavily invested in their education and do the teaching themsleves

I didn’t have the benefit of private schooling. If is even a benefit

I beat Yale and Harvard types all day long with my 10th grade education

[Yaelle]

Exactly.

[2banana]

It was pretty unfair for the obamas to send their then small kids to $30,000 per year private schools too.

[Texas Eagle]

Well, there you have it. Straight from the horse's...errr... mouth? Government school teachers suck. If you want your kid to learn anything, you have to hire a tutor.

Hopefully this story will pop up on President Dr. Trump's radar screen and he'll push for school vouchers or tax credits for parents who homeschool or who send their kids to private school or who hire tutors.

[MarkL]

You MUST dumb-down the schooling, so that everyone will be equally dumb.

Got-cha!

Mark

[I want the USA back]

They have learned their marxism well. Make everyone equally miserable, except the ruling elite which can do what it wants.

[Pride in the USA]

ping for a laugh!

[Texas Eagle]

Does that apply to parents who are government workers or are they exempt?

[Sirius Lee]

Always, ALWAYS revert to the lowest common denominator.

Schools function to polish stones, but the same curriculum acts only to dulls gems.

[Sirius Lee]

dulls dull

[Dead Corpse]

Animal Farm. 1984...

Now Harrison Bergeron...

[a real Sheila]

On the surface, the memo is reasonable, EXCEPT for this one statement-

While FCPS doesn’t and can’t control these private tutoring groups, we do have concerns that they may widen the gap in educational access and equity for all students. Many parents cannot afford private instruction. Many working families can’t provide transportation to and from a tutoring pod, even if they could afford to pay for the service.

[xrmusn]

Used to be that goals were set to ‘rise’ to the top.

I guess today’s ‘lesson’ is to lower oneself to the least common denominator.

Case in point.

(Sports) Tournament now has a ‘losers’ bracket and the ‘winner’ of the losers bracket get more recognition than the team that came in SECOND in the overall competition.

Actually the ones that REALLY aren’t fooled are the GOOD, competitive players,
the ‘not so talented and parents’ live for the glory of that 9th place finish (LOSERS Bracket winner)

[Mr. Jeeves]

My job as a parent is to make sure my child is capable of defeating your child in any endeavor, all the way through life - not to teach him/her to wait for the sluggards to catch up.

Government schools have been pushing this type of forced egalitarianism since the 70’s. Hold back the smart, so the dumb can keep up. And look at the results.