Sorry, I just don't agree.
It is each person's individual responsibility to rear and/or educate his/her own children. Sending the lil ones off to the goobermint to indoctrinate is a poor choice in the first place.
Secondarily, if I have to work so hard to ride herd on the goobermint indoctrination, just to keep it at a minimal level, I'd rather devote that energy to the exclusive benefit of my own progeny.
My sister is a Montessori teacher, and she sees it like you do: it is the collective responsibility of society to supervise the education system. I believe that collective resposibilities of society are limited to National defense and critical infrastructure.
Well now this is interesting. My 10 year old attends a Montessorri school which is within our public school system. We just had a need to communicate with the principal some concerns over what an art teacher had been telling the class.
When asked if she thought the president is racist, the teacher replied "sometimes I think so." She also opined that Katrina relief would have been quicker if more victims were white, and the president would not be at war if it were his own children being sent to fight.
The wife and I agree that there are benefits to exposing our children to a wide variety of individuals throughout their school life because they will certainly meet up with all sorts post graduation. This is why we choose public schools. When things like this happen, we make some noise.
The principle spoke with the teacher. The teacher claimed that there was some "discussion" on these topics which was "student led" and she made an effort to "draw out a variety of view points." B.S. I suppose I could take some encouragemnt from the fact that the teacher felt the need to white wash her stupid comments. It shows that she is aware of out of line she is.
We will keep a close eye on it and speak up when need be. I just don't see the benefit of surrendering public schools to the liberal, america-hating, homo-loving, abortion celebrating, hippy leftovers. I don't see the benefit of surrounding our children with clones of themselves in a private school. In fact, I don't much enjoy discussing politics and civics with those who agree with me. There is nothing to learn... or teach.