School officials never tire of saying they need the support of parents. They mean that parents must make sure their children do their homework and listen to the teacher and the principal. In other words, the schools want the parents to be cheerleaders. Cheerleaders of course stand on the sidelines. Oh yes, parents also get to vote for the school board in democratic elections.
Democracy is that system of political governance in which the ayes have it and the nays get it.
Partly because people have been persuaded that education is too complicated for lay parents. Experts are required. That is nonsense, of course, but the school lobby has effectively propagandized the American people for about 150 years. It would restore responsibility by putting the decisions back into the hands of parents. With respect to their children's education, they would trade their cheerleader's pompons for the coach's whistle.