Despite what you hear, parents aren't in charge of schools. That's a good thing.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : If so, you're in luck: Dozens of private and parochial schools are in frenzied competition for your tuition check.
65% : When parents shut down a school board meeting or demand that school officials make homophobic bigotry school policy, as a mob in Dearborn did last week, they're only demonstrating how great a challenge public schools face in upholding the civility and decency on which democracy's survival depends.
59% : School boards must stop politicizing religion: When curriculum standards and religion collide, students and faith traditions loseParents who want the shield their child from exposure to specific courses, books or points of view have lots of options short of private school.
51% : But my concern here is public schools, which Merriam-Webster defines as "free tax-supported schools controlled by a local governmental authority" (emphasis mine).
50% : Once upon a time, the idea that no group of parents representing less than an electoral majority should enjoy exclusive dominion over public schools was uncontroversial.

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