When a Parent Complains
In the tug-of-war of education decision-making, it’s instructive to see the effect of parents’ complaints. Sometimes one complaint is enough to change a school’s policy. Sometimes the voices of many parents don’t have much of an effect.
Here one parent’s complaint was enough to remove “in the year of our Lord” from high school diplomas.
Here a number of upset parents complained about a sex ed– or sex demonstration–presentation to high schoolers. Stay tuned to see if the school makes any changes other than giving parents advance notice next time.
The idea of public school — going back to Horace Mann and the common school movement–is to bring kids from all kinds of backgrounds together. But recently the Cato Institute’s Neal McCluskey has argued, that public schools by their very nature cause social conflict:
Unfortunately, the reality [of public education] is very different from those idealized assumptions. Indeed, rather than bringing people together, public schooling often forces people of disparate backgrounds and beliefs into political combat.
H/T: Religion Clause
