Follow the money

Here's a thing. When the Bush administration starves our school districts of cash and then makes them waste what they do have on NCLB, wingnuts are empowered to destroy school systems that don't have the funds to fight back. "Lawsuit" is a very scary word when there's no money in the till.

I was thinking about the art teacher in Texas. The news report say she was fired based on one parent complaining. One. After multiple approvals and winning awards and blah blah. One. Which reads to me like fear of lawsuit, and that implies things about the pressures that the school district is under and how much money it has to fight if it chose to fight.

A big chunk of the wingnut agenda has been to take over the schools. Weaken the schools by starving them of money, and they're easier to take over. Maybe it's just that simple.

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