A voucher system would change things.
If parents were given a voucher worth a certain amount of money for each child and they could “spend” it at the school of their choice, the schools would start competing. Some schools would continue to offer the woke agenda, but others would start to offer something to please moderates and conservatives - more based on learning the skills.
If the schools all have just as many or more parents than they do teachers overseeing each one, change would happen. If parents had to approve of who is hired, that would help. You would also see the more sensible and serious teachers move to schools more their liking. Basically, the schools which go non-union would excel. The NEA is a labor union....it cares little about students, regardless of what they say. At least that’s the way it is in Canada.
If only the primary goal of public school education in this country was the actual education, not the indoctrination, of our children.
Vouchers would be great. Yeah the NEA here is all for and about liberal indoctrination
Teacher education has to change as well.
I don’t know how you force parents to get involved. Maybe well they were home with their kids during covid-19 noticed how horrible the education system was. But typically before that parents just drop them off and didn’t pay much attention to what happened inside. Even in private schools. I taught in a very expensive private Christian School that was very subpar educationally. Most of the parents didn’t have a clue