🚫 Beware “Success Sequence” Bills 🚫
They sound harmless — finish school, get a job, marry before kids — but they push a narrow, moralistic agenda that blames individuals for poverty while ignoring systemic issues. These bills don’t belong in public schools. Poverty isn’t a personal failure — it’s a policy failure.
But this so-called “sequence” pushes conservative values, not evidence-based education. It blames individuals for systemic failures and ignores the realities of students’ diverse lives.
Public schools should be inclusive, secular, and grounded in facts — not vehicles for religious or ideological messaging.
Let’s keep morality politics out of our classrooms…..
🚨Ohio🚨
SB156 is the “Success Sequence” bill. Below is the lanaguage of the bill itself as well as our submitted opponent testimony.
Secular Education Association
What people are saying:
- Facebook User: I emailed Rep Adam Mathews…his reponse:
Thank you for emailing to express your concerns. I am not an evangelical, and I do not see how teaching students to stay away from drugs, be gainfully employed, get and stay married, and raise their children with their loving spouse somehow brings about Christian Nationalism. Those concepts of building the family, the most important institution in our culture, seem to be accessible to just about everyone, regardless of belief system. Our public schools are funded by taxpayer dollars, and, knowing full well that these principles are the most likely to set students up for success, we owe it to both them and those we tax to educate them accordingly.
I am fully supporting HB 269, and I look forward to getting it to the Governor’s desk.
- Secular Education Association: Facebook User no he’s not an evangelical but if I had to guess he’s a Catholic- and they have their own hand in contributing to Christian Nationalism- 👀
“Mathews is also very involved in his community. He has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Elizabeth’s New Life Center, a network of pro-life women’s centers throughout Southwest Ohio. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Cincinnati Federalist Society, St. Thomas More Society of Cincinnati, the Warren County Republican Party, and Kiwanis of Lebanon. “
- Facebook User: Secular Education Association yep…and I never accused him of being evangelical….I addressed the pending legislation and being driven by that.
- Facebook User: Facebook User if you’re comfortable- forward me this emailed response. We are going to start publishing names, faces, responses and contact info. Mgaines@seculareducationassociation.org
- Secular Education Association: Facebook User no he’s not an evangelical but if I had to guess he’s a Catholic- and they have their own hand in contributing to Christian Nationalism- 👀
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