Well - kind of - but I live a long, long way from Texas, so I don't really know what goes on there - that's why I ask. But having spent many years observing the States from the north, I have seen that issues have a way getting very polarized there, and Americans, if I may generalize, do seem to have a tendency toward zealotry. I just find it hard to imagine that many teachers would go out of their way to alienate the parents of their students - as if they didn't have enough problems already ...