[Drammach]

Remarkably, even after the school district’s surreptitious actions were exposed, parents were nonetheless told that they were not welcome to sit in on the “freshman advisory” and were not permitted to have access to materials used in compiling its activist curriculum.

How did schools, boards and districts get the power and authority to dictate such matters ??
What laws give them that authority and power ??
Who passed those laws, if they do indeed, exist ??
Are they still in office ??
If so, why ??

[EternalVigilance]

It varies state to state.

But the bottom line is this: State legislatures and the federal government have for all practical purposes taken over the local schools. They allow their NEA masters to run things. Parents and taxpayers have little real control over anything. The PTA is nothing but an arm of the NEA, designed solely to fool parents.

The school board itself has little power over budgets - the state mandates where almost all of the funds must be allocated. IOW, the school board is mainly left in place to maintain the illusion of local control.

All of the whining by education types about "parental involvement" are disingenuous. Human nature being what it is, people will not take responsibility over something they have no authority over. This is a basic concept of self-government. Parents have no ownership.