Exactly. Of course I wasn't asserting that in every situation you are able to choose the specialist you work with. I was pointing out that public school paren

Exactly. Of course I wasn't asserting that in every situation you are able to choose the specialist you work with. I was pointing out that public school parents have little to no opportunity to evaluate and choose their children's teachers and, understandably, this makes accepting a teacher's opinion carte blanche seem pretty unreasonable, even foolish. Picking who teaches your children should be nothing like arriving in the emergency room with a bullet wound. It's not hard to conceive of a public education system where parents are given a lot more choice about the teachers teaching their children.