Conservative ideology: Many teachers don’t need to be pushed in this direction because they’re already sympathetic to a worldview that values obedience, particularly on the part of children. A student’s job is to do what he or she is told, period. It literally never occurs to some educators that kids should play a role in deciding how to allocate class time, construct a curriculum, assess their own learning, solve conflicts, decorate the walls, and arrange the furniture. A good teacher by definition is one who has firm control of the classroom — who “does to” rather than “works with” — and many parents vocally support that view.