oceans away

[During the campaign, Ségolène Royal] said that if teachers in the national school system (overwhelmingly Socialist voters) could find the time within their allocated hours to give paid private lessons to students they should be required first to give individual lessons to their own students who were having difficulties.

In Sarkoland
by William Pfaff
New York Review of Books
Volume 54, Number 10, June 14, 2007