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Don’t be fooled. The PUBLIC SCHOOLS do not answer to parents.

Not necessarily so. In small, rural districts, the school board wields a lot of power locally, everyone knows everyone and they most definitely answer to parents. It sometimes works out unfairly. I’ve seen probationary teachers who thought their jobs were secure only to have an angry parent rant at the board at the same meeting that contracts were renewed. The next morning they found out they’d been fired.

But in large districts you are pretty much right.

“Not necessarily so. In small, rural districts, the school board wields a lot of power locally...”

Feel free to believe that, but DO NOT COMPLAIN HERE when your ideals meet reality. The bottom line is that they ALL come from the same breeding ground, which are the ‘Schools of Education’, and until that is changed, you CANNOT win. They’ll simply work around you guys with tactics like real time curriculum changes (where what you see at 7PM is NOT what the kids see at 1030 AM, for example - thanks to ‘technology’). You will ALWAYS be on the back end of what they do.

If you do want to fight, have your kids take SCREEN SHOTS of what’s being pumped into them, rather than trusting the ‘updated’ curriculum that they want you to see.