And for what it's worth, the post you linked to strikes me as completely divorced from reality, at least as far as I have seen in the way the schools operate. There is nothing an active, engaged parent can do to change the school in a PTA meeting aside from baking cakes to raise money. You have time though, before your girl is school-age: maybe you could begin to attend school board meetings, even get elected and be able to make a real change? Heck, maybe that's what we all need to do.