Decide what?
If they want to teach creationism alongside evolution?
"Academic freedom implies the teacher teaches what he wants, supervised only by his fellow educators, and the school is autonomous of the society, even though financially supported by it.
It is the task of the educator to educate the young, not indoctrinate them with societal mores, or train them to become good little workers.
Or to paraphrase one educator, 'It is the purpose of the university to teach the students how to think, not what they need to know.'"
I completely agree with this, and it meshes very nicely with my ideas of decentralized power and freedom of choice.
You're the one having trouble getting the square peg into the round hole of "We can't allow 'rednecks' to teach things the State doesn't approve of."