🚨GEORGIA

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/10/30/mother-says-daughter-forced-take-part-halloween-activities-against-their-religion/

Listen up. We’re not playing the “both sides” game anymore. 👇
We are so exhausted by this manufactured “parental rights” outrage cycle. 😤

A parent said she was upset that her child participated in a totally normal, secular Halloween activity at school. Fine — families can always request to opt out. Schools accommodate that all the time. Miscommunication or not.

But instead of simply working with the teacher, this turned into:
“Public schools are practicing witchcraft” 🧙‍♀️
and “Why can’t we have Christ in the classroom?” ✝️

And there it is.

This is the pattern we are seeing everywhere:
1. Take a completely ordinary public school activity.
2. Frame it as an attack on Christianity.
3. Use the panic to argue public schools should teach one religion.

Public schools are secular by law because they serve every family:
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, interfaith, unsure — all of us. 🌍

Families who want religious instruction during the school day already have options:
• Christian schools
• Catholic schools
• Homeschool
• Church youth programs
• Their own home and community faith life

Public schools are not churches. ⛔️⛪
And they are not supposed to be.

We are watching the same play over and over:
“Parental rights” = “my religion gets to control everyone else’s kids.” 🚫

We’re not going to quietly watch “parental rights” become a tool for forcing one family’s theology onto every child in a public school.

No.

Parental rights means:
• You teach your beliefs in your home.
• I teach mine in my home.
• And kids share a school where no one’s religion is forced on anyone. 🏫

That’s called freedom.
It’s called pluralism.
It’s called public education. 📚

And it protects all of our children — including hers.

— Secular Education Association
Public schools are not pulpits.

Tagging for transparency + community awareness:

Paulding County School District
Georgia Department of Education
Joseph Gullett for State House
Paulding County, Georgia
Atlanta News First
WSB-TV
11Alive
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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