I disagree. School boards are supposed to be leaders in a mission to provide the best education to their students, and should be influenced primarily by educati

I disagree. School boards are supposed to be leaders in a mission to provide the best education to their students, and should be influenced primarily by educational experts and the “boots on the ground,” i.e., school administrators, teachers, and other leaders with training and experience in curriculum development and education. While parents’ opinions do matter, they aren’t experts in education, and school boards should be influencing the parents instead of the other way around. Otherwise education is going to be beholden to irrational whims, fads, and politics, and I believe society will be far worse off as a result. And that’s really the story here - that politics, rather than educational effectiveness, seems to be prevailing with this and other school boards across the U.S.