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
. Soon after his election loss, he began incorporating his arguments into a cause destined to dominate Republican political discourse: parental rights.and urged legislators to pass the Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act. The bill had been introduced by conservatives in Congress, but Farris, as he acknowledged in his testimony, was one of its authors.fundamental, according them the same high level of deference that courts show to freedom of speech and of worship.
In 2013, Farris wrote a Virginia bill closely modeled on his proposed constitutional amendment. He took it to Brenda Pogge, a Republican state delegate who had home-schooled her own children and volunteered on his lieutenant governor’s campaign. After some revisions, the bill passed the Republican-controlled state legislature.
But some doubt that Farris and his political allies truly believe that the rights of all parents are worth protecting.. Trans kids are now supposed to use single-occupant bathrooms or those matching their biological sex. School officials are not to address them by their preferred names or pronouns without a parent’s written request — and when parents do make such a request, the new policy states, teachers aren’t obligated to respect their wishes.
The best way to accommodate different ideas about how schools should handle such issues is to give parents as much choice as possible in how their kids are educated, Farris said, throughIt’s a goal he shares with some powerful allies.former attorney general William P. Barr Neither Bohlinger nor several other Ziklag representatives responded to detailed questions about the recordings and documents.
“Our goal is to take down the education system as we know it today,” Bohlinger said in one of the videos reviewed by The Post. “Mr. Farris has worked on parental rights issues for many years and accomplished much in this area,” the group said. “ADF does not share all his views and is not pursuing all his theories.”
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