These actions by the GOP are an all-out war on public education in Montana, dressed up in the guise of parental rights, something parents have always had at all times.

Montana’s teacher shortage, especially in rural areas, has been well documented for years. And yet Montana’s lawmakers believe making rules easier for teachers to lose their entire careers is going to make the teacher shortage better?

Even as tone-deaf and doctrinaire as the Republican lawmakers at the Capitol seem to be, they’re really not that dense (by which I mean clueless).

Not even a little.

Conservatives have invented this cultural crusade, making parents and residents believe that libraries are repositories for pornography, and the classroom is nothing but critical race theory sprinkled in with constant conversations about sex, gender and hedonism.