Some parents primarily see public schools as free babysitting. So they aren’t going to be all that concerned with most policy and protocol adjustments.
Such parents didn’t care about Common Core Math either.
“It’s something that some teachers want to do, is all.”
The rising number of childless white adults is contributing to friction now as they see no point in funding schools at all; they realize they are funding “free” education for an increasingly foreign student body - imported here just to keep the local school system in business.