🚨OHIO🚨
⚠️ Ohio’s “School Chaplain” Bill Crosses the Line ⚠️
Ohio lawmakers are trying to bring chaplains into public schools.
House Bill 240 — backed by 10 Republican legislators — would let districts hire or accept volunteer “chaplains” to counsel and mentor students.
These chaplains would not be licensed by the state board of education. They wouldn’t need any training in psychology, child development, or trauma-informed care.
What could possibly go wrong?
Supporters are selling HB 240 as a response to the student mental-health crisis — but instead of funding qualified counselors, psychologists, or social workers, this bill opens the door for untrained religious workers to fill that role.
Even Christian groups like LOVEboldly, which supports LGBTQ+ people of faith, are calling this bill what it is:
“An attempt to breach the separation of church and state, using schools as a battering ram.”
And they’re right.
When public schools replace professional mental-health support with religious counseling, they blur the line between support and conversion.
Students deserve help — not evangelism.
Ohio already averages 400 students per counselor (far above the recommended 250:1 ratio). The solution is more licensed professionals, not clergy in classrooms.
Secular Education Association stands with educators, mental-health experts, and even faith-based allies who know that public schools must remain secular, inclusive, and safe for every student — regardless of belief, gender, or identity.
🧱 Public schools are for education, not evangelism.
✋ Keep church and state separate — and mental health in the hands of trained professionals.
#PublicSchoolsNotPulpits #KeepItSecular #Ohio #HB240 #ChurchStateSeparation #MentalHealthMatters #SEA
What people are saying:
- Facebook User: There have been so many bad experiences between kids and religious figures. Let’s not try for another scandal in our schools please. For some reason the priesthood and the clergy tend to attract men who shouldn’t be around kids. I know, I know, blasphemy. But none the less it’s true. We all know it’s true.
- Facebook User: Honesty, integrity, fairness, kindness and generosity are all we need, no religion required.
- Facebook User: Is this a payed position or volunteer? And will they be required to act as mandated reporters? So much wrong with this.
- Facebook User: And now a christian public school in colorado!
- Facebook User: Ok…and then let’s allow Rabbis and leaders of every religious pursuasion …let’s just nix math and have a koombaya prayer afternoon. OMFG!!!!!
- Facebook User: It just keeps getting worse!
- Facebook User: Great! If your religion is allowed inside public school classrooms, so is mine!
- Facebook User: Kids don’t even go to the counselor.
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