ANTI-AMERICANISM
And then there is anti-Americanism. There has been no
more influential history book in our time than Howard
Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, a primer for
hating America because America has only ever done evil. 4
We have no doubt that most of those teaching history to
kids have been steeped deeply in Zinn.
Hassan and Farnan point out that the National Network of
State Teachers of the Year recommend a smelly book called
the Social Justice Book List that lists the themes of “classism,
racism, xenophobia, sexism, and transgenderism.” 5 This is
for kids in preschool through sixth grade. If you wonder
why your fourth grader comes home sounding like Jeremiah
Wright and worse, this is why.
NOT IN YOUR LIFETIME
It goes without saying that there are good and faithful teach-
ers too, faithful to their calling to educate and not indoctri-
nate. They, too, are victims of the ideologues. If they resist,
they risk losing their jobs. In fact, we know teachers in
government schools who have chosen to leave rather than
teach this nonsense.
The bad news is Hassan and Farnan make clear “you
cannot fix these problems, not in your child’s school life-
time anyway.” What this means is you have to get your kids
out now, today. It also means that you should work hard to
change the school systems anyway for the sake of their kids
and the sake of the country. ■
Editor’s Note: The republishing of this article does not
necessarily constitute a full endorsement of what is written
in the book, Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child
from Public School Before It’s Too Late.
Austin Ruse is president of the New York and Washington D.C.-based Center for Family &
Human Rights. He is the author of Littlest Suffering Souls (Tan Books, 2017) and Fact-Sham-
ing: Exposing the Left’s Skewed Statistics, Dodgy Data, and Pseudo-Science (Regnery Publish-
ing, 2017).
Cathy Ruse, JD, currently serves as Senior Fellow for Legal Studies at the Family Research
Council. She was Chief Counsel to the Constitution Subcommittee in the House of Repre-
sentatives where she had oversight of civil rights and human rights issues, as well as reli-
gious freedom and free speech matters which came before the House. Her writing has been
published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washing-
ton Times, and other national and regional newspapers and publications.
Reprinted here by permission of The Stream. For more information regarding The Stream,
visit stream.org.
ENDNOTES
1. Mary Rice Hasson J.D. and Theresa Farnan Ph.D., Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your
Child from Public School Before It’s Too Late (Gateway Editions, 2018).
2. “The Gender Unicorn,” Trans Student Educational Resources, http://transstudent.org/
gender.
3. Anita Vogel, “Student Sues ‘Anti-Christian’ Teacher Over Remarks in Class,” Fox News,
April 2, 2008, https://foxnews.com/story/student-sues-anti-christian-teacher-over-re-
marks-in-class.
4. Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (Harper Perennial Modern Classics,
2005).
5. “Social Justice Book List,” The National Network of State Teachers of the Year, https://
nnstoy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/NNSTOY-Social-Justice-Book-List.pdf.
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