Cathy Ruse on the Fight Parents Face in Public Schools

Ruse realized public schools were turning students into ideologues en masse, dictating the culture of the next generation.

Cathy Ruse is a senior fellow and director of human dignity at the Family Research Council. Family Research Council

Cathy Ruse says she'll never forget the first school board meeting she attended: a father got up to the podium with a piece of paper in his hand, and then started on a shocking, profanity-laden tirade.

It was bizarre and disruptive to the point that the chairwoman reached for the gavel to interrupt. But then the father stopped and explained that this was from the first page of the reading assignment his daughter was given.