This is illustrated perfectly in the article I cite in the spoiler section of this “Crazy Years” comment”. How dare parents and the representatives they elect presume to meddle in the decision of “experts” prescribing what their children will be taught and indoctrinated with?
This lack of expertise is doubly dangerous for our students and democracy. First, it means a small number of people rely on their personal priorities for a child’s education to determine school curricula for all students. The dependence on individual perspectives as much as knowledge grounded in research and expertise leads to an increasing conflation of faith with science, memory with history, and dogmatism with truth. Second, the unwillingness to provide students with subject-appropriate, expert-developed materials that introduce them to new ideas limits their ability to assess sources for reliability and accuracy.
But what are these “experts” if not “a small number of people [who] rely on their personal priorities for a child’s education to determine school curricula for all students”?