Gospel
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But I also think that whether its 8 parents or a thousand, parents just aren't qualified to design curriculum on subjects they are unfamiliar with. It's one thing to have a say, but parent's prerogatives should not have automatic priority over scienitifically informed pedagogy, or even the discretion of a teacher or professor unless there is cause. If all parents were experts on all subjects, and had the time necessary to do things like review new model curricula, keep up on current literature, review pending challenges, and so forth, we wouldn't need a public school system to begin with.
Exactly, and that’s the part the “parents’ rights” crusaders never want to admit. They’re not education experts, they’re political foot soldiers trying to turn public schools into their own culture-war sandbox.