“NOR SHOULD THEY BE. Public schools are funded by GOVERNMENT MONEY, they don’t owe jack to parents. ...therefore I have NO PROBLEM with this kind of garbage going on.”
Maybe dumb to you, but people answer to who pays them, and for public schools, it is THE GOVERNMENT.
Ask yourself this, if public schools actually answered to PARENTS, why do we read about kids getting EXPELLED because they cut out a piece of paper in the shape of a gun? Which PARENT is demanding this?
On a larger scale, ask yourself this: Did PARENTS (who you seem to think control schools) really demand that California jump head-first into Whole Language Reading (look it up) in the 1980s when it was PERFECTLY CLEAR that kids would no longer learn to read? Did parents want to see an ENTIRE GENERATION of kids not learn reading (which is what happened), due to whole language?
While I have to admit that my life, too, would have been much simpler if I thought that schools gave a crap about my views (other than smiles and lip-service), I’m still VERY GLAD that I NEVER trusted the education of my kids to them.
I'm sorry, but you're just doubling down on dumb.
Who exactly do you think funds the government?