The parents in attendance should have risen up and bodily thrown out the entire board for what they are foisting on kids.
So why didn't they?
This is the problem. It's time to stop just sitting there and "taking it", because that is precisely what makes our EMPLOYEES thing they are our rulers. Stand up. Block the aisles. Have a sit in. be calm, quiet, nonviolent. If they grab you just go limp. If you can't read it in a public meeting, what is it doing in the schools?