Fundamentalist ideas about religion, science, libraries, public schools, etc., don’t come from a vacuum. They have to be planted by people. They have to be pushed and moved forward by people. The latest iteration of this is Lifewise Academy. They have set their sights on the public schools. They lobbied successfully to change laws in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Oklahoma, and Texas. They are attempting the same in a dozen more states. All of these changes are to force school districts to work with Lifewise Academy. They are demanding that public schools coordinate with them, regardless of what’s best for the school. Prior to the law changes, parents could remove their children from religious classes without being marked absent, but the school was not required to coordinate and facilitate the religious program.