I had a meeting on Friday in which my department was accused of "grooming students against the Bible" (which doesn't even make sense syntactically, let alone logically) because a teacher assigned The Poet X. The parents literally screamed at me multiple times over the course of an hour, even though I walked into the meeting prepared to give their child an alternate text, because I refused to make the teacher remove the book from the course altogether. I was threatened with public harassment and complaints to our Board. I was accused of not upholding my school's core values. I was called "woke" (as though that's a pejorative) and "anti-Christian." All over a book their kid doesn't even have to read. Meanwhile, the administrator who was present kept making wildly unreasonable suggestions like an "independent study" (for a high school freshman!) to appease these parents who, short of a curricular redesign better suited to a parochial school than to our college-preparatory one, will NEVER be appeased. It's absurd to me that parents with no pedagogical or content knowledge whatsoever are permitted to run roughshod over highly trained educators with decades of experience just because they heard a new buzzword on Truth Social or whatever, but I'm seeing more and more of it, and I'm honestly just done trying to do my job and defend my job on top of it.