Sue, I like ya, and have agreed with a good number of your posts here. But, trying to what they call, "Grey the issue" by using a minority of the whole that may or may not exist within every school district in the nation is a non sequitur. We are speaking in general about curriculum's, and not about special considerations of statistical minorities in one class.
My point, and the question about it still stands then....
I agree that parents need to get more active within their children's education..But, that is the rub isn't it? I mean, one thing Covid did, through "remote learning" was to expose some of the objectionable things being promoted in the classrooms, and when parents are now speaking out about that, they are shut down by school boards, arrested, and pilloried by teachers that say parents need to back off...Which one is it?
And you just did it here Sue...You can't have it both ways...In the quote above you speak of parents being more involved, and using their voices, then in this sentence slap them by saying that if they do they'll be all running around bumping into each other like Keystone cops....You can't have it both ways...
I respect Teachers, and would say you have an enormously difficult job, inbetween the Parents (the Rock), and the Administration (the hard place)...But, teachers do themselves NO favors when some within their ranks abuse their trust, or when they argue that the parent is just not smart enough to take on issues within the schools....I/ WE pay for these schools.