[A_perfect_lady]

Okay, in the real world (I am a public school teacher) they can tell you that you are going to do this or that, but they rarely actually CHECK and see that you are doing this or that. An Administrator from the District may pop in a couple times a year with a clipboard, but be aware, these are people with a very short attention span and a massive sense of self-importance, so sitting quietly and observing is actually anathema to their restless little minds. They sit in your classroom for 10-15 minutes and then leave. Later your principal gets an email asking why your standards or objectives weren't written on the board, or if you've considered doing more groupwork. You tell the principal you'll be sure to put those standards up, and of course they do groupwork, they just weren't on that day. End of discussion.

In other words, they don't know if you comply unless you loudly announce that you will not comply. If they told me tomorrow that I had to teach using a short story on a wonderfully happy gay couple, depending on my view of the story, I could take it, nod gratefully, and ask if they have any quizzes or vocabulary lesson plans to go with it... and then stack it neatly in a cabinet, never to be seen again. Or I could use it and we'll use it as an opportunity to talk about propaganda and bias... or I could use it as they'd like me to, but as a teacher you have a lot of leeway. You just have to be tactful and discreet.

[heartwood]

And if you have a principal who hates you or suspects you because you’re not towing (toeing?) the liberal line, you’ll get a lot more class observations. Don’t have tenure? You’re done.

If one of your students has a gay parent or a left-wing busybody parent, there will be complaints travelling up the chain, hell, complaints to the local press “I gave Ms. Lady a book to read to the class because Sam was feeling left out because there was no depiction of families like herm own - I told her Sam was feeling left out, but she never read it.”