OHIO 🚨Columbus City Schools Push Back on LifeWise 🚨

Under pressure from Ohio’s new law, Columbus had to amend its religious release policy — but they added important safeguards that every district should copy:

📌 No propaganda in schools:

“The amended CCS policy would prohibit students from distributing literature for a released time course to other students during instructional time while on school property or when engaging in such student-to-student speech causes a material and substantial interference with schoolwork or infringes on the rights of others.”

📌 No candy bribes, real meals only:

“The amendment would also require religious release providers to provide a meal that is U.S. Department of Agriculture compliant like public school lunches.”

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Columbus also now requires state-level background checks for release-time volunteers and placed limits on how often kids can be pulled out of class each week.

➡️ This is how you protect students and classrooms, even when the state is bending over backward for LifeWise.
➡️ Other districts — take notes.

Public schools belong to kids, not outside religious programs.

👉 Join the fight to protect our schools: http://www.seculareducationassociation.org

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2025/09/16/columbus-city-schools-changes-policy-lifewise-other-religious-release-comply-with-law/86184006007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z117067p119150c119150e004600v117067b0050xxd005065&gca-ft=19&gca-ds=sophi&fbclid=IwZnRzaAM4OBRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhO-EGDHOKR95SpodMES7JWRzelR1_aaQIP3LgLz28ozvTm4Fv1ijtsUhFz1_aem_30zKS1-sOrHSvx_IO3meRg&sltsgmt=0154_E


What people are saying:

  • Facebook User: Lifewise is grooming children for white supremacy and Christian nationalism. An evil cult.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User
    • Facebook User: Facebook User yes, I read that. Can’t believe they didn’t have that in place.
  • Facebook User: This cultists group is very scary. Says they are religious, but what denomination? What exactly are they teaching these kids? The school has to release a curriculum but not these guys. They give candy but not to eat there. They bring it back to school to entice other kids to go next time. When you see red flags they should be heeded.
    • Facebook User: Facebook User Fundamentalists believe they have the only truth, and feel compelled to convert all others, no matter what. They teach that God doesn’t like the kid who disobeys.
  • Facebook User: Christian Nationalist grooming.

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