(LOL) FAIRFAX CT. VA: "Stop educating your children at home. It is racist and unfair. And it also makes them too smart for our liking".

[Blue Sky Country]

FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA:
The county's education department has sent out a bizarre email message to families all over their districts in the recent few days trying to discourage parents from hiring private tutors or continuing to homeschool their children using unorthodox materials, citing that it is "unfair to those who cannot afford such a privilege in their own households". Meanwhile, the county's schools remain closed and plans to go fully online only once opening on September 8, 2020. In that aspect, school officials still have not figured out how the online part is going to work. A trial phase started by the county earlier in the month resulted in massive glitches, as well as hackers and trolls infiltrating the network and harrassing students and teachers, causing the county to completely shut down the program shortly after.

Fairfax Tells Parents To Stop Educating Their Kids While School Is Banned

School administrators 'have concerns that [private tutoring pods] may widen the gap in educational access and equity for all students,' Fairfax County said.

thefederalist.com

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A county in Virginia is discouraging parents from hiring private tutors for their children while refusing to provide in-person instruction in public schools.

“While [the Fairfax County Public School system] 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,” said a memo from one of the nation’s largest school systems on Friday. Many parents are working together to hire private tutors to teach their children in small groups at home.

“We have received some requests from parents who would like to cluster groups or pods of students together with a specific teacher. From both a logistical perspective, and in the interest of educational equity, FCPS cannot accommodate such requests,” the memo continued.
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The message has also been posted to Fairfax County board of schools' own website and is still available to read at this moment:

Message for Parents on Tutoring Pods | Fairfax County Public Schools

www.fcps.edu

Yeah, I am sure that parents all over the county will be like "oh no, the county has sent us a message telling us to be nice. We are going to stop educating our children"...

The desperation and cringe within that message is blatantly telling. It is almost like those "I am a nice guy and a gentleman who will love you and worship you, and all those other guys are FUCKING ASSHOLES. Why can't you give me a chance, you BITCH, WHORE, SLUT, COCKSUCKER! I HOPE YOU GET RUN OVER BY A CAR!!" posts that chicks all over Tinder have received from incels and creeps after they put on just a dab of makeup for their profile photos... (Reddit r/niceguys for full LOLfest)

The REAL motivation behind this latest leftist LOLcow is clear enough... Can't afford to have all those children getting redpilled and learning the truth about the world. But being this desperate enough to send out something like that will only double down and accelerate the public's wariness of you...

 

[pmclaine]

Response.....

"SUCK MY DICK"

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Response.....

"SUCK MY DICK"

Exactly. And that is the primary reason why many of those bureacratic agencies have disabled their social media presence especially during the WuFlu outbreak and the riots... They are getting TROLLED and CLOWNED every time they open their mouths. The dank memes had been hitting their pages like an A-10 going "BRRRRT" and crashing their servers completely on some instances.

The credibility of these asshats have been completely shot through and through. Out of curiousity I have made a quick trip to some of the gun stores around my old upriver AO and on Long Island since I had some time to kill and rented a Zipcar to cruise around. They are less than 10 minutes from metropolitan NYC in either direction. They are almost all COMPLETELY sold out of all of the popular handgun and rifle calibers, as well as the reloading components for them. And the guns themselves? I only seen one sad looking refurbished "tankerized" Mauser K-98 variant in a Nassau County store sitting on the wall. I almost wanted to purchase the thing out of pity for it sitting all alone on the wall like that, but then remembered that I have more than enough pew pew accoutrements stocked up... This is a very clear indication that people are taking their own initiatives to protect their loved ones and neighborhoods. Everybody knows that the real ugliness is right around the corner. This upcoming election season will prove probably the MOST volatile it has been in this country's history since the secession talks and the Kansas-Missouri border conflicts of 1859-1860. And unlike the late 1850s, we are not dealing with an opposing American political faction this time, but an utterly alien and incompatible invasive species that have taken over our institutions like giant hogweed...

 

[rjacobs]

Response.....

"SUCK MY DICK"

exactly what I was thinking my reply to said email would be...

ETA: the other thing these parents MUST do, if they are going to do this, is withdraw their kids from school officially...this cuts off the funding to the school for their kid... If they dont, the school will still get the funding for said child.

 

[Maggot]

Dumb down to the lowest common denominator.



Portrait of the young man. A disease - mental retardation. Isolated
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[Edgecrusher]

Can't imagine what race this idea is aimed at.

 

[Bigfatcock]

I’m offering hourly work for hot, out of work, female teachers.

 

[pmclaine]

If I could get my kids to do just one thing it would be read....

Read 1984

Read Animal Farm

Read Brave New World

None of these are in the curriculum now.

Read it and understand it so that it becomes part of your being.

Than....

Read The Constitution

 

[HiDesertELR]

Not apologizing for keeping my house in order and making good decisions, go pound salt.

 

[10ring'r]

I think, they are worried that they(school admin./teachers), won't be able to teach their Comm. agenda to our young children. It breaks a spoke in their wheel. Mac

 

[Mwalex]

The communists do not want the kids to get a good education because they know as adults they will not vote for them.

 

[The D]

If I could get my kids to do just one thing it would be read....

Read 1984

Read Animal Farm

Read Brave New World

None of these are in the curriculum now.

Read it and understand it so that it becomes part of your being.

Than....

Read The Constitution

And when they get old enough to handle some real-life, dark shit have them read The Gulag Archipelago

 

[pmclaine]

And when they get old enough to handle some real-life, dark shit have them read The Gulag Archipelago

Russians say shit in 150 pages what everyone else says in a paragraph.

Although Solzhenitsyn is quotable.........

Read a lot of Holocaust memoir in college Tadeuz Borowski certainly brings home the reality of totalitarian govt.

Socialism, of the right or the left, same coin two sides, greatest killer next to disease in history.

 

[The D]

Russians say shit in 150 pages what everyone else says in a paragraph.

Although Solzhenitsyn is quotable.........

Read a lot of Holocaust memoir in college Tadeuz Borowski certainly brings home the reality of totalitarian govt.

Socialism, of the right or the left, same coin two sides, greatest killer next to disease in history.

Yep. Also, as a refutation to all of the communism/Marxism there are two books that I have that are complete nukes to these ideas. They are Socialism by Ludwig Von Mises and Marx and the Close of His System by Eugen Von Bohm Bawerk

 

[...]

"poor kids are just as smart as white kids"
-joe Biden

 

[2ndamendfan]

Always enjoyed, Fahrenheit 451

 

[Cheyenne Bodie]

FFX is a fairly affluent county. I don't see this landing well with most parents there, or really anyone with half a brain.

I went to fifth grade in FFX, the teachers were dumb as fuck. Couldn't spell, always bringing their personal lives into the classroom, played favorites with students, pointless projects to make learning "fun", under staffed and overfilled classrooms, and so forth. Granted, this was many years ago but I now see the problem has not gotten any better in general.

I remember we had these little fake ass typing machines when there was the huge "computer literacy" push, jesus christ you have never seen a more infernal manifestation of an electronic device. They were always fucking up and running through batteries, total waste of shit. We had those because they just needed to waste money on three top of the line purple iMac desktops per classroom instead of affordable (real) desktop personal computers for more than a third of each class. So what you got was essentially a few printing stations and a bunch of shit tier drone typing trainers, and at significant cost compared to machines and curriculum which would have actually taught kids about computers. That's FFX public schools in a nutshell.

 

[IrishWind]

This is because some teachers are using their free time over summer break to offer classes to prep/supplement/ect students. Somehow the Karens in FFX have made the jump that the teachers are making their students pay for classes. And so far no one has even named a teacher that is doing this. FCPS has rather reasonable rules on teachers using their time to offer extra-curricular classes for pay. My wife teaches at FCPS and just finished doing that. And per FCPS rules, she was good to do so.

Also FCPS is suffering what many other districts in the DC are going through. This isn't about about education and kids. It is about the parents needing daycare for their kids so they can have their days back. FCPS did fuck up the spring schooling. Not going to lie there. My 5th grade daughter's experience was bad. Her teacher had no clue how to run an online class and failed to adapt. Gatehouse is the FCPS superintendent and his staff. You could fire half the staff today and no one in the county would even notice. It is that useless. But they were the ones that were supposed to be planning for thses events. Yes FCPS had a online plan as part of the post 9/11 world in case of another attack. But failed to keep it and the software programs need to run it up to date.

I could go on about how FCPS has bigger problems. But this issue in the OP is about some people being pro-active on fixing a problem, and a bunch of others trying to cry race/class instead of sorting their shit out to get ahead.

 

[Slash0311]

And this is the perfect example of how the public school system is failing. They dumb down students with potential or try and restrict access for those that try and better their kids.

My guess is the left will start to fear loosing control of the "education" system and will figure out a way to open and get the kids back in schools.

 

[BikePilot]

I volunteered at a ffx high school. Started in AP history. The teacher literally was teaching at a preschool level. Trying to get students to find Germany on a map of Europe and failing miserably. Realizing that was a hopeless situation I reassigned myself to the trade school kids who were in a trailer out back. They were cranking out good work in auto cad. I hung there and helped them out a little, then gave up on that endeavor. Truly hopeless system.

 

[pmclaine]

And this is the perfect example of how the public school system is failing. They dumb down students with potential or try and restrict access for those that try and better their kids.

My guess is the left will start to fear loosing control of the "education" system and will figure out a way to open and get the kids back in schools.

My town is in the shit because its been discovered that stats show METCO kids bussed in are diciplined more often than local kids.

Therefore school is racist and reform must follow.

No thought that maybe METCO kids are behavior problems - all they see is color.

Granted the school does have an intervention counselor that intercedes with courts when the hockey players get in trouble with the law.

So perhaps just going first by stats than color and comparing the two subjects and the level of leniency maybe there is a problem.

 

[TheGerman]

Great time for poor kids and their poor ass parents to realize they’re not special, no one cares and if they want something, they need to outwork the other people.

That’s how life works outside of what liberals want you to believe.

I don’t care about your poor kids.

 

[Clearlight]

If I could get my kids to do just one thing it would be read....

Read 1984

Read Animal Farm

Read Brave New World

None of these are in the curriculum now.

Read it and understand it so that it becomes part of your being.

Than....

Read The Constitution

Ill add; Lord of the flies, To kill a mockingbird, and One day on the life of Ivan Denisovich....

 

[pmclaine]

Ill add; Lord of the flies, To kill a mockingbird, and One day on the life of Ivan Denisovich....

Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dickens, Jack London..........the shit the cemented us together as Americans.

Now considered "Western Based Privilege" well pardon my governments based on law, skyscrapers and airplanes.......perhaps Aztec Culture would be a better alternative?

I just dont have the heart for it.......

 

[Maggot]

Russians say shit in 150 pages what everyone else says in a paragraph.

Although Solzhenitsyn is quotable.........

Read a lot of Holocaust memoir in college Tadeuz Borowski certainly brings home the reality of totalitarian govt.

Socialism, of the right or the left, same coin two sides, greatest killer next to disease in history.

I tried reading the Gulag. Started off depressing and went quickly down hill from there. I made about 40 pages and had to stop.

 

[Bolo]

Ill add; Lord of the flies, To kill a mockingbird, and One day on the life of Ivan Denisovich....

All these, including @pmclaine 's list, plus 'We Were Soldiers Once, and Young' and 'Catch-22' are on my sons' list. There's a big focus and a essay project on the Federalist Papers in 10th grade.

Moving my kids from Catholic school to public was a bad decision. Moving them to a (catholic and military) private school was the best decision we ever made. And a lot cheaper than a tutor.

 

[MarinePMI]

Wanna instigate a discussion with your kids? Listen to "Debunking Howard Zinn" on audibles with them in the room.

Just did that last week, while my youngest (post college, living at home to pay off college loans) and was working her job from home. It is pretty eye opening to them, as the book debunks a lot of the liberal/communist narratives taught in colleges these days. This one book has spawned so many discussions. It should be required reading at high school level home school curriculums...

 

[JakeM]

Response.....

"SUCK MY DICK"

Or... Thank you for showing me exactly why I do not want you educating my children.

 

[pmclaine]

Or... Thank you for showing me exactly why I do not want you educating my children.

That's what I said in Marine.

You don't speak Marine?

 

[JakeM]

Nope. I’am thinking about speaking army though. Probably won’t be much different.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

If I could get my kids to do just one thing it would be read....

Read 1984

Read Animal Farm

Read Brave New World

None of these are in the curriculum now.

Read it and understand it so that it becomes part of your being.

Than....

Read The Constitution

But they get to read “Sally has two Mommies.” Isn’t they good enough?

Or are you one of those “haters?”

Sirhr

 

[TheHorta]

Translation: Prevent my kid from excelling so it makes other kids feel less stoopid.

 

[BufordTJustice]

If I could get my kids to do just one thing it would be read....

Read 1984

Read Animal Farm

Read Brave New World

None of these are in the curriculum now.

Read it and understand it so that it becomes part of your being.

Than....

Read The Constitution

required reading in our home

 

[Kamerad]

Decertify public teachers unions.

 

[Maggot]

That's what I said in Marine.

You don't speak Marine?

Dern, I was never in the service and I speak 'Marine' more than fluently and at times at extreme volume.

 

[Maggot]

Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dickens, Jack London..........the shit the cemented us together as Americans.

Now considered "Western Based Privilege" well pardon my governments based on law, skyscrapers and airplanes.......perhaps Aztec Culture would be a better alternative?

I just dont have the heart for it.......

lets not forget Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath'. That one was an eye opener for me. By the time I was done I almost wished I hadnt started.

 

[308pirate]

The Fairfax County Public Schools administration building should be burned to the ground

 

[JMGlasgow]

It is easier to take rights away when they don't know them.

 

[jdemp1]

Yup they are worried the kids will see a real true view of the world, not just their lefty bullshit.
All this shit started in our College's with these looney asshats that we let get in there and teach, from the late 50's on up to present day !
I say old "Tail Gunner Joe" had great vision and that's a fact !

 

[jphil108]

I’d add Anthem by Ayn Rand to the reading list as well, might be her best book, definitely among her shortest and it’s what really impressed me with the need for individualism.

Dad made sure I knew how to use tools safely at home, dad made sure I understood my math homework at home and that I knew a few cool things I could do with the math I had learned. Mom and dad made sure I understood history at home. My parents made sure I had access to any book I wanted to read on any subject, judging by the staggering body of knowledge on this site in just about every topic, I’d say many of you were raised similarly. Exposure to information happens at school but learning happens at home and doing cool stuff with your parents.

I think quality impartial public education is important to the continuity of our constitutional republic, but I don’t think that will happen until teachers are paid a competitive wage which might entice capitalist leaning folks to teach instead of pursuing a more lucrative private sector career. Your county can’t penalize you for giving your kid a useful education while they aren’t, that’s as bad as the no child left behind bullshit. This fucking equity shit and equal outcome policy making need to die a miserable but quick death. Tutors are great if you can afford them. The library and time with your kids are great too and don’t cost shit so I don’t buy this poor kids can’t learn because they don’t have money non-sense. Many poor kids don’t learn because many of their parents don’t care.

 

[Rthur]

Very dangerous idea against the Union and status quo.
Parents getting what they've paid for and control of content.

R

 

[pmclaine]

Yup they are worried the kids will see a real true view of the world, not just their lefty bullshit.
All this shit started in our College's with these looney asshats that we let get in there and teach, from the late 50's on up to present day !
I say old "Tail Gunner Joe" had great vision and that's a fact !

Tailgunner Joe lacked tact in speaking his truth. In other words being a Marine he spoke Marine to those that could not handle it or used it against him.

Leatherneck Magazine recently printed an excerpt from a soon to be released biography about McCarthy.

It's a hit piece written by a Boston Globe reporter i.e. A Communist Propagandist.

Dude had the gall to question McCarthys bravery in flying missions in the back seat of a dive bomber manning twin .30 cals.

Same guy probably swoons over Kerrys three Purple Hearts.

The liberalism/Communism even in a magazine like Leatherneck does not go un-noticed.

I don't think we can rely on upper ranks of the mil, of a certain generation, to do the right thing by the Constitution.

 

[ZiaHunter]

I believe we are going to see a fundamental change in primary and secondary public education as a result of COVID-19. Virtual learning by public schools will be a cluster and many parents are going to micro schools where a group of parents hire a teacher to instruct in an off campus environment. My wife is a private school administrator and sees this happening. Many teachers are refusing to go back to work in the public schools and there is an abundance of teachers willing to teach outside of the public school system.

If this trend does in fact gain traction it is a major threat to the public school system and the teachers unions. In most locals funding is tied to enrollment and would result in significant funding decreases. It will be interesting to watch.

 

[pmclaine]

I believe we are going to see a fundamental change in primary and secondary public education as a result of COVID-19. Virtual learning by public schools will be a cluster and many parents are going to micro schools where a group of parents hire a teacher to instruct in an off campus environment. My wife is a private school administrator and sees this happening. Many teachers are refusing to go back to work in the public schools and there is an abundance of teachers willing to teach outside of the public school system.

If this trend does in fact gain traction it is a major threat to the public school system and the teachers unions. In most locals funding is tied to enrollment and would result in significant funding decreases. It will be interesting to watch.

But will it mean a reduction in local taxes?

Every time I get ass raped its "For the education of the children. Our future is at stake!"

 

[RTH1800]

It’s ok to send the black kid to basketball camp and further hone his skills to be better than his peers but unfair to send your white kid to math camp hone his mind?
OK sure, will do.

 

[IrishWind]

The Fairfax County Public Schools administration building should be burned to the ground

Sound like a true NoVa parent. My wife's experience's with Gatehouse (FCPS Admin's building name) is mostly people trying to justify paychecks without doing meaningful work. A lot of people coming up with new curriculum or policies, but have little experience in a class room if any. And teachers are expected to add it to an already stuffed to the gills teaching schedule. But need them to update something in your file? Make sure you give them copies only and expect to wait longer than one needs to see even if it was done the first time...

 

[Soulezoo]

And when they get old enough to handle some real-life, dark shit have them read The Gulag Archipelago

While I do agree with you, have you read it? All three volumes? Good lord it's hard to get through. Not because it's dark, but it's just so damn dry...

 

[Soulezoo]

lets not forget Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath'. That one was an eye opener for me. By the time I was done I almost wished I hadnt started.

Good story. Steinbeck was a hard lefty.

 

[Soulezoo]

But will it mean a reduction in local taxes?

Every time I get ass raped its "For the education of the children. Our future is at stake!"

Well you see, that's really the issue. It's money. Do the teachers for the most part really care about the kids? No. It was even verbalized as such at a NEA convention some years ago. It's about power and money brings that power. And the power brings more money.

 

[P-Squared]

I’d add Anthem by Ayn Rand to the reading list as well, might be her best book, definitely among her shortest and it’s what really impressed me with the need for individualism.

Dad made sure I knew how to use tools safely at home, dad made sure I understood my math homework at home and that I knew a few cool things I could do with the math I had learned. Mom and dad made sure I understood history at home. My parents made sure I had access to any book I wanted to read on any subject, judging by the staggering body of knowledge on this site in just about every topic, I’d say many of you were raised similarly. Exposure to information happens at school but learning happens at home and doing cool stuff with your parents.

I think quality impartial public education is important to the continuity of our constitutional republic, but I don’t think that will happen until teachers are paid a competitive wage which might entice capitalist leaning folks to teach instead of pursuing a more lucrative private sector career. Your county can’t penalize you for giving your kid a useful education while they aren’t, that’s as bad as the no child left behind bullshit. This fucking equity shit and equal outcome policy making need to die a miserable but quick death. Tutors are great if you can afford them. The library and time with your kids are great too and don’t cost shit so I don’t buy this poor kids can’t learn because they don’t have money non-sense. Many poor kids don’t learn because many of their parents don’t care.

@jphil108 ,
I sort of agree with your point to pay teachers a competitive wage, however I am opposed to doing it in the setting we see today. Every effort to tie pay to performance outcomes is thwarted at every turn. The spokes person pushes back with excuses of why that is not possible and how the students coming into the grade are not performing at that level, and it's not their fault, blah, blah, blah.

I look at what is happening now, with parents coming together and hiring teachers to teach pods of students. I would like to believe that at some level the parents have some sort of metric to determine if their money is being spent well. If the teacher isn't living up to those expectations, I would like to believe that the parent or parents would just quit paying that person and find someone else.

If the private sector (the parents) can come up with performance metrics, why can't the schools? That's really rhetorical, however it makes you think huh? Wouldn't it be nice if we actually graduated students that were good citizens and had mastered their lessons? ... makes you think.

Maybe Covid was a blessing in disguise.