Specifically, once empowered and participatory, are science organizations and government officials prepared to accept and
implement public preferences that cut against the interests of science?
... While the Education Act and the Regulations related to it acknowledge the importance and relevance of considering parental
preferences and encourages communication with parents before
implementing certain decisions, the legislation does not give parents the absolute power to make all decisions about the education of their children within the
public education system, especially in the areas of curriculum and other related aspects of programming, such as teaching methodology.