https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/get-out-now-the-compelling-case-against-publ...Get Out Now: The Compelling Case Against Public Schools
So many of us have heard indirectly and anecdotally that our public school system is a nationwide wasteland that does harm to children and has wrought havoc upon our culture, values, and sense of history.
But has anyone taken the time and energy to examine this catastrophe at its root? Perhaps not until now. Regnery Publishing has this year provided a definitive, careful, and well-researched exposé of the corruption at the core of the public school system, titled Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Children from Public School Before It’s Too Late.
Co-authors Mary Rice Hasson, J.D., and Theresa Farnan, Ph.D., daughters of the renowned Notre Dame law professor Charles Rice, are far from alarmists in a panic about an overblown issue. Rather, they have combined to present an incredibly rich and detailed overview of a pervasive and devastating problem that has for too long overwhelmed our young people and threatens to undermine both reality and truth, not to mention God’s perfect plan for human flourishing.
The authors lay out their dramatic case in three parts. Part one comprises three chapters on the corrupting and game-changing “gender crusade” that seeks to brainwash our children into accepting the false ideologies of gender and sexual “orientation.” The second part has six chapters covering multiple other issues at work in public schools: atheism and secular humanism, the loss of our American identity in favor of forming young “activists” rather than patriots, the way in which parents are rendered powerless by the system, the “social-emotional” learning affecting our kids’ psychological makeup, fake and failing education, and the inevitable hard truth that parents can’t “fix” any of this.
Readers should by no means overlook the substantial third part of this work—an appendix of insightful follow-up questions, acknowledgments, and a true treasure of about 100 pages of endnotes that provide thorough and hard documentation supporting the accounts and claims presented in the nine chapters. No one—particularly advocates of this failing educational system—could seriously challenge the well-researched content, typically based upon the sad and often-tragic accounts of real parents with real kids in real schools that have turned authentic education and human formation upside down. In the effort to accommodate an ever-widening liberal cultural agenda that is robbing our kids of the integrity of their intellects and wills, public schools of every kind across our nation are willingly sacrificing our children on the altar of evil agendas that should be denounced rather than protected.
Take for example the headlong rush into madness that is “gender ideology.” The first few chapters take on this diabolical re-imaging of the human person, exposing the “new normal” that John can be “Jane” if he wants to, and teachers, students, and parents ALL must bow to John’s expression of “who SHE really is.” That which would have been roundly rejected as unthinkably foolish only a generation ago is now viewed as a new and unavoidable “LGBT Gospel” that no one in public schools can opt out from accepting as gospel truth.
In fact, public school teachers form the front lines of this twisted “new evanglization” taking place in every nook and cranny of public education. If your kids find their way into a public school classroom, on a daily basis they will be—not may be, but will be—compelled to embrace the “diversity” of the LGBTQIA+ taxonomy that normalizes every imaginable perverse emotion and attraction while relativizing the two truly normal and God-given identities we call “man” and “woman.”
Readers should be prepared for an onslaught of examples of how parents and children find themselves at the mercy of an organized and well-constructed effort to make it impossible for anyone to take a view that does not effectively glorify and endorse the false and distorted views of the ideologies of gender and sexual orientation.
While this one crucial issue forms the massive tip of a still-more-massive iceberg, it is by no means the only red flag in the public school system.
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