Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2023

This WaPo piece on the parents' rights movements plan to destroy public education in the U.S. is essential.

Unlike Assigned, WaPo's stories don't typically include screenshots of batshit crazy stuff they found, so I went and took one (from a link in the piece) that has to be seen to be believed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/michael-farris-homeschoolers-parents-rights-ziklag/

The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry

On a private call with Christian millionaires, home-schooling pioneer Michael Farris pushed for a strategy aimed at siphoning billions of tax dollars from public schools

The Washington Post
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@e_urq Here's a gift link so that everybody can read the article about how the goal of the religious right is not just to harass kids for being gay or trans, but to destroy secular education. https://wapo.st/3svRzn7
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The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry

On a private call with Christian millionaires, home-schooling pioneer Michael Farris pushed for a strategy aimed at siphoning billions of tax dollars from public schools

The Washington Post
Aug 29, 2023 at 8:41pmWeb