Ashland, Ohio –
Ashland City Schools keeps crossing the line between church and state — and now they’ve literally built a sidewalk to do it.
Despite multiple warnings from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Ashland City Schools continues to entangle itself with LifeWise Academy. The district has already listed LifeWise on its official class schedule. Now, a new sidewalk — publicly celebrated as a “spiritual bridge” between a local church and the public school — makes the entanglement impossible to ignore. 👀
Public schools exist to educate every child, not to serve as recruiting grounds for churches. Building a literal pathway from a taxpayer-funded school to a church for religious indoctrination shows exactly how far LifeWise and its partners are willing to go to blur the lines of separation.
Secular Education Association
What people are saying:
- Facebook User: Isn’t Ashland City Schools the ones who didn’t fire Renee Beck the first time they found her to be having inappropriate interactions with her students??? Everyone who can should pull their kids immediately tbh.
- Facebook User: It was Loudonville and they fired her
- Facebook User: Facebook User oh my bad. And no, they didn’t fire her until after she did it again. They warned her to stop, she didn’t stop, and then they fired her.
- Facebook User: Facebook User you’re probably thinking of the two other teachers at Ashland that needed 25+ years to finally remove
- Facebook User: Facebook User this does not surprise me!
- Facebook User: Ashland has been bought and paid for. They’re all in bed together.
- Facebook User: Yeah my town is knee deep in this unfortunately.
- Facebook User: Mapleton has the same relationship with
- Facebook User: Great a bridge to give actual groomers easier access to children 😑
- Facebook User: Very exciting news, congrats to Ashland City schools!
- Facebook User: In looking at this specialist schedule, am I correct to understand that Ashland City Schools has made LifeWise one of their regularly scheduled specialists…right alongside art, music, PE, Library?! If that’s the case, very illegal.
- Facebook User: I think it’s a time reserved just for the kids who do go- yeah, weird, but it is likely to make life easier for the teachers who have to tolerate this interruption
- Facebook User: Facebook User i wonder if, then, the students who don’t go have their own specials time rather than just study hall or sitting there twiddling their thumbs. They seem to making LifeWise more of an opt out program rather than opt in.
- Facebook User: Nicole Satterthwaite Hicks they used to have computer
- Facebook User: Please talk to some teachers and staff at Taft as well regarding some materials they have received!!
- Facebook User: As a parent of Ashland students (one who actually starts at Taft next week), I’m sickened! How do we fight this?
- Facebook User: Look up the Lifewise Ashland City Facebook – the superintendent is all for this.
- Facebook User: Facebook User teach you children to tell the Lifewise kids that they are not godly people and that Jesus taught us to LOVE. Teach them how to refute their bigotry and bullying because the “teachers” instruct them to bully other kids. Teach them that those kids parents aren’t smart enough to think for themselves or principled enough and too lazy to pass their own spirituality down to their own children.
- Facebook User: Facebook User also!!! If you know anything about the parent of any specific kid who bullies your kid for not going to Lifewise, OUT IT. Tell your kid “well if we’re going to hell for this then their mom is going to hell for that!” Because the TRUTH always wins.
- Facebook User: Ooooof this is such an icky violation of religious pluralism!
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