Sometimes it gets one very far indeed. The article is just one small example: the parents complained, the offensive books were pulled from the shelves.
Public schools are controlled by the political process, which has a nasty habit of coming up with really inappropriate stuff. This should come as a surprise to no-one.
In this country, politics is a game that everyone can play. Too many good people give up too easily.
Furthermore, public schools are staffed with union-member lifers, who seem to be almost universally liberal and in favor of this sort of nonsense.
They may seem to be universally "liberal" (I prefer the term "Leftist") but not all of them are. Nor have the schools always been controlled by the teacher's unions. That has come about gradually over in the past fifty years or so. There is no law that says the trends cannot be reversed. I am not saying that would be easy, but it can be done.
Public schools should be better, but they are not. When parents make the decision of where to send their children to school, they have to look at the local public school as it is, not as they wish it would be.
Again, if the public schools are not as we wish them to be, it is our right -- and responsibility -- to demand that they improve.
As others have pointed out on this thread, the option to school one's children at home or to send them to private schools is not open to all. Those children also deserve a good education.
Or to put it differently, we cannot afford to pour billions of dollars into schools that act as indoctrination ceners for the Left. That is true even if we take care of our own children at home or in the private schools.
We should all demand better public schools, whether we have children in them or not. We should demand that we get our money's worth and we should demand that they not teach inappropriate material. But that all has nothing to do with a parent's decision on where to send his child. The former is a public political problem. The latter is about choosing what is best for one's own family.
As far as the option of private or parochial education not being available to all, pretty much every private or parochial school has tuition assistance for for the indigent. If you have too much money to qualify for such programs, it's a matter of priorities. A lot of parents who "can't afford it" seem to be able to afford a lot of other nice things. They just choose these things over the well-being of their own children.
We should all demand better public schools, whether we have children in them or not. We should demand that we get our money's worth and we should demand that they not teach inappropriate material. But that all has nothing to do with a parent's decision on where to send his child. The former is a public political problem. The latter is about choosing what is best for one's own family.
As far as the option of private or parochial education not being available to all, pretty much every private or parochial school has tuition assistance for for the indigent. If you have too much money to qualify for such programs, it's a matter of priorities. A lot of parents who "can't afford it" seem to be able to afford a lot of other nice things. They just choose these things over the well-being of their own children.