Rule #1 of School Administrators: We Are Professionals. Rule #2
  of School Administrators: We Know Better. Rule #3 of School
  Administrators: You're Just The Parents. In some cases they're
  bound by state law and stuff but a lot of it is just this
  underlying attitude that seems to have been a part of school
  administrations for the past 150 yrs+ == Free play cutbacks are
  disasterous imo. But having read Summerhill when I was 14, my
  dreams of "how school should be done" never ended, so my
  frustrations with the way they do things is neverending. ==