What people are saying:

• Secular Education Association: To be clear: this post is not about the individuals involved.
  We focus on systems and public narratives — not personal attacks.

  Our goal is simple: clarity around how school-day religious instruction programs are being framed in civic spaces.

  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association In other words, you don’t agree with this so you will do everything you can to destroy it. It’s a constitutional right and a guaranteed freedom for parents to choose this program.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User We’re not trying to “destroy” anything, and we’re not here to argue people’s personal beliefs.

    Our focus is on how programs operate within public school systems; especially when they intersect with the school day, public resources, and district policies.

    There’s a meaningful difference between private religious freedom and how programs are implemented in public education spaces. Asking questions about transparency, governance, and impact isn’t an attack, it’s part of civic discussion.

    We welcome good-faith conversations about how these programs function in practice.

  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association but does this area concern you? Are you a part of the community? This is a community decision to support them, not for outside groups.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User We always encourage local voices to lead conversations in their own communities — and we do have members and supporters in the Ashland area who have reached out about this.

    Our role is to provide context and ask transparency questions about how school-day programs operate within public education systems. These issues are showing up in multiple states, and families often connect with us for information and resources.

    Local communities make their own decisions, but informed public discussion is part of that process everywhere.

  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association that may be your perspective, but it still doesn’t bode well when you mislead or stir up a community with controversial accusations like your member did with something that happened in a different community. It’s clear you’re trying to twist the truth. These kids come from broken homes. Or parents want their kids to get a better education. It’s called school choice for a reason and yes, it is an elective. It’s a much better alternative than hiding from parents issues that the kids are learning by teachers that are against Law enforcement or even ICE. Who are you really protecting? Rapists? Criminal murders? The member who tagged you is clearly anti-American.
  • Facebook User: John – this isn’t about destroying anything – and it’s not about denying anyone’s right to religious instruction.

    Parents absolutely have the constitutional right to seek religious education for their children. That’s not in dispute.

    What concerns many of us is that LifeWise hasn’t limited its work to serving interested families. It has actively lobbied state legislatures to change laws governing how released-time programs operate in public schools – including efforts that reduce local school boards’ discretion and limit how communities can decide whether or how these programs function in their own districts.

    That shifts this from “parent choice” to state-mandated access.

    One of the core American principles our founders emphasized was local control of education and limited government intrusion. Public schools belong to the whole community – families of every faith and of none. When state law is used to override local decision-making, it raises legitimate constitutional and civic questions.

    We can defend religious liberty and still insist on clear boundaries between church and state. In fact, that balance is what protects everyone’s freedom.

    This isn’t about being anti-religion.
    It’s about being pro-constitutional structure.

    Healthy democracies depend on transparency, local control, and honest language about what programs are and what they are not.

  • Facebook User: Facebook User that part, “not for outside groups.” That is the problem. Why does a divisive program need put in during school hours?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I suppose you’re all for teachers hating on ICE and supporting the LGTBQ+++ Mafia. It’s ok as long as you support it, but not to have an alternative?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User as a teacher, I believe in protecting my students.No matter who they are! They all deserve to be loved, respected and valued and protected!
• Facebook User: Oh gosh that brings back memories. It was a moment similar to this that started me into some of my research. If I find the screen capture, I’ll send it.
• Facebook User: I do NOT support RTRI.

  I do have a question about the photo…the “award” seems to be dated March in 2026…which hasn’t happened yet. Is this a real photo?

  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1F3ZJF3JNe/?mibextid=wwXIfr

    Here’s the original post.

  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association thank you. That seems weird.
• Facebook User: Undermining science and history learning is not usually a public service.
• Facebook User: Anything that counters the faggoty-trans-global communist b.s. being propogated and promoted by the weakest of minds in our forced-attendance public schools is welcome.
• Facebook User: I need to 🤮
• Facebook User: Why would any civic group honor a growing cult? Don’t drink the Kool ade
• Facebook User: LIFEWise is a ponzie scheme and followers don’t and aren’t educated enough to know it. They are funded by the Heritage Foundation yes the same people who wrote Project 2025 which is DJTS and Steve Millers playbook on how to destroy America turn it into a Nazi regime and hide behind the Bible and religion to murder and abuse citizens!!