Get Your Kids Out
of Government
Schools
By Austin Ruse & Cathy Ruse
T
he situation in government schools is dire and getting direr every year. All parents, whatever their
circumstance, must consider the danger government schools present to the souls of their children
and even the soul of our country.
Activist and author Mary Rice Hasson and philosopher
Theresa Farnan get this exactly right in their important
new book Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child
from Public School Before It’s Too Late. 1 They explain that,
while education achievement markers have been declin-
ing, government schools “have been successful in one area:
churning out youthful progressives—growing numbers
of men and women in the grips of existential confusion,
perpetual victimhood, and political intolerance.”
GENDER IDEOLOGY
Hassan and Farnan begin with the hottest of issues roiling
American schools: the imposition of “gender ideology.”
They call it “the game changer,” and indeed it is. Govern-
ment schools now preach and enforce the radical, anti-
science position that biological sex is meaningless, that
some kids are born in the wrong bodies, and that women
can have male genitalia too.
Pediatrician and outspoken child advocate Michelle
Cretella calls this psychological abuse. She tells the story
of a little girl who had been subjected to a male classmate’s
“coming out” ceremony as a “trans girl” (orchestrated by the
teacher, without the parents’ knowledge). One night, getting
out of the bathtub and looking at her long hair slicked back,
she burst into tears and asked her mother if she was turning
into a boy.
This is sheer propaganda, meant to throw children off
balance. It surely does. This is nothing less than child abuse
at the hands of those we have entrusted with our children.
How could they not be confused when they are forced
to digest the Gender Unicorn, a cartoon drawing teaching
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little kids that “gender identity,” “gender expression,” phys-
ical attraction, and emotional attraction are all inborn, yet
biological sex—male and female—is a construct that is
merely “assigned at birth.” 2
Hassan and Farnan show how kids are quizzed about
things they like to do. If you like “dirt-biking” and “violent
video games,” you might be a boy rather than a tomboy. Do
you like “baking and gardening?” You just might be a girl,
even if you are a boy. They are also teaching kids they can
take puberty blockers so their body might come to match
their interests in baking or dirt-biking. But wait, isn’t this
sex stereotyping? Of course it is, but the gospel of the trans-
gender crusade is not to be questioned. It is rather funny,
though, since feminists have usually taught that girls should
be allowed to dirt bike, and now we find that they can’t.
Dirt-biking is only for boys.
ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANITY
But sex confusion is hardly the only issue that should keep
kids out of government schools. There is also the overt
attack on Christianity. Hassan and Farnan tell the story of
James Corbett, a California science teacher who was fond
of attacking Christianity in the classroom. 3 He told the kids
that putting on “Jesus glasses” would blind Christians to
scientific truth. He told them that believing in God was as
ridiculous as believing in a “gigantic spaghetti monster living
behind the moon.” Fed-up parents finally took the case to
court and were told by a judge that his classroom behavior
was “appropriate and legitimate.” Hassan and Farnan show
how government schools can be a one-way ticket for your
kids to leave the Church.