What people are saying:

• Secular Education Association: Check your district here 👇
  Map.seculareducationassociation.org

  This is happening across the country.

• Facebook User: Lifewise also takes kids to the Ark Encounter in Ky, where they will be told that the Earth is 6,000 yrs old, and dinosaurs roamed alongside humans. This nonsense must stop!!
• Facebook User: Jewish children often go to Hebrew religious schools twice a week after school hours, and on Sundays. Christians can do the same.
• Facebook User: Undermine history and science. Teach children to pressure, shun, and bully others.
• Facebook User: Lifewise is infiltrating our public schools!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User where?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Columbus Grove, Ada & Allen East are the ones I know for sure.
• Facebook User: This is illegal. Separation of church and state. Anyway who wants their kid involved in some cult. Why is this being allowed? Where are the parents watching out for their children? Take your kid to church if you want to, but know what is being taught
  • Facebook User: Facebook User its sadly not. A ruling is being used to spread this cancer. Zorach v Clauson allows religious instruction during school hours with 4 standards: a program must be:
    ☆ Off school property
    ☆ Not using tax payer resources or funds
    ☆ With written parental permission
    ☆ School must do NO MORE than release- Zorach v Clauson: “If in fact coercion were used, if it were established that any one or more teachers were using their office to persuade or force students to take the religious instruction, a wholly different case would be presented.”

    But many Lifewise Programs are NOT following these standards and States aren’t holding them accountable because they are part of the plan. When the Lt. Governor is part of the board, and the State Senator used his then Lt Gov position to promote, Lifewise can be absolutely unaccountable- and that’s where WE step in and hold them to the fire and FIGHT!

• Facebook User: God haters and atheists just need to mind their own business about religious school-day release programs, and butt-out. It’s none of your business. The programs are voluntary, and no one has to participate. The US Supreme Court approved the programs in the 1950s. Yourconstant whining and complaining about something that doesn’t affect YOU violates the religious freedoms of those who wish to participate.
• Facebook User: When most state’s cannot reach 50% proficiency in math or reading I think perhaps they should focus on teaching. These kids test better than the secular ones. That’s not because of religion, but because their parents care. Outcomes are better where parents care and religious parents focus more on their kids out of a sense of moral obligation in addition to social obligation. Instead of discouraging this, the school would be better served by spending the time helping the secular kids catch up.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I beg your finest fucking pardon??? My kids have been raised without religion. Our house is secular. I am very involved in their upbringing. I am highly invested in my community. I mentor several children.
    Religious parents can be fucking awful trash as much as non-religious parents. Even more so.
    Secular Education Association clean up in Aisle Fuck Off Now.