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[quote=Anonymous]I was having a conversation with a group talking about school and the pandemic. It was a mixed group: some with private, some public, some hybrid, some virtual, some full time.

We are public school parents. Our kids were in hybrid all year. I mentioned that I hired a tutor to come on the asynchronous days to teach my 3rd grader and fifth grader. I said I tried to teach them myself but it was too frustrating for all of us and I was worried that I’d damage our relationship by trying to play teacher too. This would be woman said, “That’s nice for you but you need to own that you are replicating class privilege. Most people don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend a week on a tutor.”

I was stunned that someone I barely know other than socially as part of a larger group would say something so rude. But that she also come lately ignored the private school parents whose schools were open full time.

I said “I know that and it’s unfortunate but it’s not my fault our school wasn’t

Someone tried to defend me by saying “you have to do what is best for your kids” and she was like “that’s what all white patents say. But when are we going to start doing what’s best for society.”

(By the way she is white but identifies as a POC because she is Jewish).

The conversation moved along to the royals and she also gave me a hard time for being “too sympathetic” to Prince Harry. I’ll definitely try to avoid her in the future. But it just felt weird to have another adult attacking me over innocuous comments. I felt like saying, “jeez lady I don’t even care that much, just making conversation.”

Would you have told her to back off?[/quote]

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