Been tried---failed. I've seen a couple of these efforts at making even MINOR changes in the curriculum instigated by parents. The "ed-biz professionals" simply listen politely to the parental comments, and then go ahead and do whatever the hell they wanted to do in the first place.
"School administrators are salaried people. They have to answer to somebody, most likely elected officials."
No longer. This was "once" true, when local school boards were controlled directly by local voters, and had complete say over hiring and firing and budgetary concerns. That power has moved from complete local control, to "county-wide" control, to state control, and is not-so-slowly moving to federal control.
"Of course, if the parents were united and involved in the first place, there wouldn't be any problems to begin with."
You fail to understand that these changes were STEALTH changes, and every effort has been made to conceal the true curriculum changes from parents.
I'm afraid you are VERY naive and much too optimistic. There is zero chance of reforming the public school system. The only possibility left to concerned parents is to "get the hell out".
Maybe where you live, but from where I come from the local school board elections are sometimes more highly charged and competitive than those for legislative offices. they also tend to attrack more candidates than legislative offices.
I totally agree! We had a huge battle to put a phonics based
curriculum in our small rural school.
After one year the teachers dumped it - too much work
for them!