Despite public school hostility to parental supervision, parents are beginning to win some battles against the entrenched establishment. We can report a variety of remarkable victories. The new law forbids the public school system from requiring any student to meet occupational standards for grade level promotion or graduation unless that student is voluntarily enrolled in a job training program. It originated with a federal law of that name signed by President Clinton in 1994. It's also a plan to route school funding and authority from the federal government to bureaucrats and businessmen appointed by governors, thereby bypassing elected state legislatures and school boards.
Most parents expect more from the schools than training in work skills for minimum-wage jobs.
They expect an academic education to enable their children to aspire to be all they can be. The Kansas State Board of Education voted a couple of weeks ago to remove evolution from public school science tests. This action frees up local schools and school boards to make their own decisions in regard to teaching hypotheses about evolution, which are all too often presented in a way that is offensive to students of religious faith. Contrary to the widespread front-page publicity accorded this action, no teacher will be prohibited from teaching evolution. The Kansas action simply stopped the state from imposing Darwinian theology on schoolchildren.