Hmmm! I wonder what the school board felt it needed to hide by having “informal” closed meetings.
THAT is exactly the point. Texas used to have a law that allowed parental input on TEXT books that are purchased each year by Texas School Boards. Teachers and other liberals just hated that law, and I’m not sure that it is still in effect.
The reason the law was hated so much by the liberals is that most folks in TX are conservtive and the parent groups were always over-ruling the more radical propagandists. Since TX (and CA) are so huge, publishing companies would not produce a book that wasn’t approved by the TX and CA committees.
School committees just hate input from the parents and they’d like to keep the parents out of the oop whenever possible unless it is to serve as a claque supporting some cause that the teachers like such as shorter working hours and higher pay.