Missouri House full of right-wing fucknuts too!

In the wake of the Indiana Senate's approval of a bill to steal the parental right to sue a school, this seems to be the Far Right's current cause celebre.

Now the Missouri House has voted 160 to 0 to pass a bill that would do the exact same stupid thing.

The unanimity in passing such incredibly idiotic bills lately is astounding. One saving grace is that the Missouri House has 163 seats, so perhaps there were 3 legislators who opposed the measure but knew it was futile to even show up to vote on it.

Who can blame them for thinking that? Other blogs have described the Missouri legislature in recent years as a veritable Disney World of Far Right activism and experimentation.

The Missouri bill was sponsored by Republican State Rep. Maynard Wallace.

With the House's approval of this bill, you can just see a school principal standing there, paddle in hand, sneering, "Ha ha, you can't sue me!"

That's not the only thing this bill does. It also allows public school districts throughout the state to suppress freedom of conscience by requiring the wearing of uniforms. (Hence the yellow icons for this entry.)

(Right now, state law permits uniforms only in St. Louis. Of course, having different rules for St. Louis was part of a right-wing gambit to lay claim to areas that were less likely to support a right-wing agenda. But if you wanted to make things equal statewide, the proper thing to do would be to prohibit uniforms in St. Louis as they were prohibited elsewhere - not expand uniforms outside St. Louis.)

I think it's time for a nationwide boycott of schools - a general student strike, if you will. With individual and family rights curtailed daily, I don't even see how it's possible to benefit from most American school systems today.

(Source: http://www.bnd.com/336/story/659545.html)