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

If you had any doubt that hard-left ideologues run government school systems in many (most?) places, take a look at Fairfax County, Virginia's most populous county, with over a million residents, one of the richest counties in the United States with an average household income well over one hundred thousand dollars.

The educrats who run the Fairfax public schools have advised parents there not to hire tutors or organize informal homeschool "pods" to replace the shuttered schools because some parents cannot afford to do so, and that would be "unfair."

Fairfax County (map credit: Home By School).

I am not making this up. Here is a link to a memo sent to parents on August 7, with some key excerpts below:

Across the country, many parents are joining together to engage private tutors (who are often school teachers) to provide tutoring or home instruction for small groups of children. While there is no systematic way to track these private efforts, it's clear that a number of "pandemic pods" or tutoring pods are being established in Fairfax County.

We are aware of these tutoring pods, as well as some accompanying community concerns. To be clear, these instructional efforts are not supported by or in any way controlled by FCPS…. (snip)

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.

We have received some requests from parents who would like to cluster groups or pods of students together with a specific teacher.

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

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.

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)

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.