This is how public schools get turned into religious battlegrounds.

Not all at once.
Not by accident.
And not under the banner of “local control.”

In Alabama, Stephanie Butler of League of Women Voters of Alabama warned that SB248 was falsely sold as a local-control bill. In reality, the bill was rewritten so that if even one parent requests a privately run, off-campus religious instruction program, the district must create a policy to allow it.

One parent.
And the whole district has to respond.

That is not local control.
That is a mandate.

And it is only one piece of a much bigger push.

Alabama also passed and signed bills to:
put the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms,
allow volunteer chaplains on school campuses,
and advance prayer in public school settings.

This is the playbook.

Push religious instruction.
Push religious displays.
Push prayer.
Push chaplains.
Then pretend none of it is connected.

It is connected.

Public schools are supposed to belong to all students — of every faith and no faith.
When lawmakers keep forcing religion into school spaces from every angle, that is not freedom.

That is religious favoritism dressed up as policy.

Read the reporting out of Alabama here –

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