Had parents been involved in the process, the K-12 educational reform plan would have been easier to swallow: The Education Ministry’s drive to reform the country’s public educational system might have encountered less resistance had parents and other stakeholders been involved in the decision-making process, Salma Hussein suggests in a column penned for Al Shorouk. Hussein commends Minister Tarek Shawki’s ambitious plans, saying that his intentions are evidently noble, but suggests that the proposed system could have been tweaked slightly to take parents’ and students’ concerns into consideration before its final form was presented to the public.