The right is making public education intolerable. That’s not an accident.

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The Republicans have a standard playbook when they want to get rid of something. If they can’t kill it outright, they will slowly starve it to death. A case in point is what they’ve done to the Internal Revenue Service, clearing the way for rich people to file outlandish tax returns with little fear of audit and for hate groups to register as churches without worry of being questioned.

So it’s no surprise that the far-right Christian movement targeting schools today has a similar plan. Drain money from the schools and eventually they become so weak that they are easily taken over.

And the threat of legal bills from “Don’t Say Gay” laws and “parent rights” requirements are a big part of that plan. School districts are forced to comply with the anti-LGBTQ+ movement’s vision at the risk of incurring a sizeable bill from a random irate parent just waiting to complain about an inappropriate rainbow or pronoun.

A key architect of this plan is Michael Farris, formerly the head of the anti-LGBTQ+ legal group…

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