🚨 Why Is a Public Education Agency Promoting LifeWise Academy? 🚨
This listing comes directly from the Putnam County Educational Service Center (PCESC) — a publicly funded government education agency in Ohio.
🔗 PCESC website: https://www.putnamcountyesc.org/
On PCESC’s official Resource Directory, families can find a listing for LifeWise Academy (Ottawa Elementary) — a private religious program that pulls students out of the public school day for Bible instruction.
PCESC is not a private nonprofit.
It is a taxpayer-funded Educational Service Center.
Yet LifeWise Academy is presented alongside neutral public resources, lending it government visibility and legitimacy, even though the listing itself admits:
“This program is not sponsored by Ottawa-Glandorf Schools.”
Let’s be clear about what’s happening here:
• A public education agency is using its official platform
• to promote a religious instruction program
• that operates during the school day
• and is not school-sponsored
This is how lines get blurred for families.
When government education agencies promote religious programs through official channels, it creates the impression of endorsement — even when participation is technically “voluntary.”
Public education institutions have a responsibility to remain secular, neutral, and inclusive.
Ohio families deserve transparency and clear boundaries — not quiet normalization of religious instruction through publicly funded systems.
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Secular Education Association
What people are saying:
- Secular Education Association: We’ve reached out publicly for clarity.
Facebook User— can you explain how a privately run religious instruction program came to be listed and promoted in a publicly funded resource directory? Facebook User - Facebook User: That’s my fucking county.
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