Controlling education equals controlling children equals controlling money. Lots of money. Tons of money. More than we spend on national defense, more than welfare, more than the GNP of most countries. There is a cruel beauty to the vicious circle of government school funding.
Government takes money from taxpayers and gives it to teachers.
Simple as A, B, C and repeat. We were just pocket change. But now we're a movement with more than a million children, representing billions of dollars in ADA money. We are becoming a threat to its livelihood. We need to be bribed or regulated back into the system.