This isn’t about one woman.
It’s about how a school-day religious program gets normalized.
A glowing local feature out of La Porte County, Indiana presents LifeWise as wholesome community good. But the article itself says students are pulled from school for it “in lieu of one extracurricular class each week,” describes the curriculum as Bible-based, says lessons show “the connection to Jesus in every lesson,” and celebrates giving students “a biblical worldview” instead of the worldview they are “presented all around them today.”
Let that sink in.
Kids are missing part of their public school experience for a sectarian program that openly says it is there to replace the worldview students are exposed to all day with a biblical one. That is not neutral. That is not just “character education.” And losing even “one extracurricular class each week” is still students being pulled away from what public school is supposed to provide.
And that’s part of the problem with stories like this: once a program is wrapped in smiling profiles and community praise, anyone who questions it risks being painted as mean, anti-faith, or anti-community instead of being heard on the actual public-school issue.
That’s the issue.
Not her.
Not her family.
Not her church.
The issue is a religious organization gaining structured access to public school children during the school day — and getting packaged as feel-good community news instead of being scrutinized for what it is.
Optional does not mean harmless.
Bible-based does not mean neutral.
And missing school offerings for religious instruction is unacceptable.
Public schools should be secular. Every child deserves that protection.
from GreatNews.Life Media Company
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