The Republican advance guard calls 2662 a “parents’ bill of rights and academic transparency act.” Who can argue with that, right? But wake up! Smoke’s being blown, and only winds of reason can sweep it clear.

Parents already have rights, and academic content is already transparent. The bill, however, would require an entire year’s lessons and materials be posted at a “portal,” a website accessible not just to parents but to the general public. Paranoid parents — or anyone at all — could flood it with complaints, making teachers’ lives even more miserable than they were during the pandemic.