Doesn't need rationalizing Tim.
The children belong to their parents Tim.
They are not "the nation's grammar school children" Tim.
Those parents pay for the schools and all the school employees (that includes all the teachers and the administrators) Tim.
Anytime they decide the school is doing something they consider to not be in the best interest of their children, they can withdraw them Tim.
They don't need your approval Tim.
So here's the bottom-line Tim.
Stuff it, nobody's listening to your leftist spew any more Tim.
P.S. Say Tim, how's your job prospects looking at the paper these days? Maybe you should have gotten a clue that nobody was listening, by the downward spiraling circulation of your "birdcage liner", eh Tim?
BUMP! Great post.