Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Let’s save the California mission school project!

I’m really angry right now, and I don’t care who knows it. There’s a terrible injustice going on, and I want something done.
In its infinite wisdom, the state Department of Education (motto: We’re bureaucrats and you’re not) has decided that schools should do away with the 4th Grade Mission Project, based on its new “History Social Science Framework” for schools.
This means that future generations of parents would not have the grueling ordeal, (oops I me