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Parents have implicitly trusted education as a thing that is done with their children by experts.
I think this is behind the large current push to "parental rights" -- a recognition that parents, by choice, have been largely disconnected from their children's schools.
But rather than processing that, parents are being ushered into outrage by motivated politicians sowing suspicion and fear about educators, and education in general. So the system becomes the scapegoat.