Education experts are calling for calm after it was revealed that many children in Victoria have fallen behind their peers, with some as old as seven starting the school year without knowing the alphabet. To help, the Victorian state government has employed more than 5000 tutors in schools to help kids catch back up after a chaotic academic year. Melton West Primary School teacher Nicole Douglas, who is working as a tutor in Victoria, told the Herald Sun that students fell behind in their learning because some parents could not support their online learning. “A lot of our grade one students were quite far behind (when they started school),” Douglas said, as she had “quite a number” of students who were unable to count to 20, while others didn’t know any letters. “They weren’t on a reading level and couldn’t recognise words,” she said. However, education experts in Victoria are …