🚨 Ashland, OH — Time to Demand Accountability.🚨
This week, LifeWise and local officials celebrated a new sidewalk physically connecting Taft Intermediate directly to Southview Grace Brethren Church — the church that houses LifeWise classes.
This wasn’t just a church project. Public officials stood shoulder-to-shoulder with LifeWise leadership to celebrate and pray over it.
• Ashland City Schools Superintendent Steve Paramore Ashland City Schools
• Taft Principal Jonlyn Hartsler
• State Representative Melanie Miller (R-Ashland) State Representative Melanie Miller
• Pastor Tony Vandyne
• LifeWise Director Mary Dolce
• Members of the Park Street Grace Brethren Missional Committee Park Street
• LifeWise board member Rob Wash
This isn’t infrastructure for safety — it’s a religious pipeline endorsed, publicly blessed, and normalized by public school leadership and a sitting state legislator.
The sidewalk symbolizes more than “safety.” It normalizes the idea that church and school belong side by side — when our Constitution says otherwise.
We all want safe routes for kids, but public resources and public partnerships should protect education, not promote proselytizing.
📩 See something like this in your district? We always recommend reaching out to the Freedom From Religion Foundation
REPORT IT: https://ffrf.org/legal/report-church-state/
And join the fight to hold leaders accountable:
👉 We only get 1,000 school hours a year to teach our kids. Every one of those hours matters. Public officials who hand them over to LifeWise are betraying the trust of the families they serve. ✊ Ohio House GOP Caucus 📢👀
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13astmLvtJQ3YKPVwdCHa02AvXXrHz_rV/view?usp=sharing
What people are saying:
- Secular Education Association: Secular Education Association
- Facebook User: That’s a pretty homogeneous-looking group there!!
- Facebook User: This needs to be stopped now. The separation of school and religion is the law.
- Facebook User: while this was happening, students and staff struggled to complete benchmark testing, without the support of certain admin members who felt it necessary to attend a “ribbon cutting” instead of assisting with the very thing they were trained for
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