What people are saying:

• Secular Education Association: Seeing things like this in your district?

  Join our private national group and tell us what’s happening in your community:
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  Public schools belong to everyone.

• Facebook User: Oh ffs, they watched it bc they probably learned about Egypt in social studies class, per the state curriculum. Get over yourself.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User ‘Get over yourself’ is exactly what we’d say to people dismissing legitimate church-state concerns in public schools. 👀

    Public schools serve Christian students, Muslim students, Jewish students, Hindu students, atheist students, and families with no religious affiliation at all.

    So yes; how religion is presented in classrooms matters.

    Nobody is banning discussion of Egypt. We know exactly what the curriculum is ffs. Nobody is claiming teachers cannot teach about religion. The point is that public schools have a responsibility to approach religious content carefully, neutrally, and with appropriate context.

    That is not extremism.
    That is literally the constitutional standard. 🤦‍♀️

• Facebook User: I will say, it’s not a specificly Christian movie. At the begining it even says they consulted Jewish and Muslim scholars as well as Christian ones to make the movie.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User yes. We addressed that almost immediately in the post- and that actually reinforces the point.

    The story is rooted in the Exodus narrative, which is sacred and religiously significant to multiple living faith traditions. That is exactly why schools should approach it thoughtfully and with clear academic context instead of acting like it is just culturally neutral background material.

    Consulting scholars from different faiths may make the film more respectful or historically informed, but it does not magically make it nonreligious.

    And again, the broader concern is the environment these materials are being introduced into.

    In many districts, this is happening alongside:
    • Bible release programs during school hours
    • pastors and chaplains entering schools
    • Ten Commandments campaigns
    • increasing pressure to center Christianity in public education

    People are responding to the full context -not just one movie in isolation.

• Facebook User: What is Prince of Egypt about?
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User o we’re sure you know. Don’t be disingenuous.
  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association Yes, I know a bit about the movie, but I wanted to hear you articulate it, which I see you did below. Why assume, though, it was shown “without deep context, without careful framing, and without equal treatment of other faith traditions?”
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User because the mother is in our private group and we know the lesson plan structured around the movie being shown.
  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association are you able to share the lesson plan here?
• Facebook User: doing religion to children is fucking sick, even a little bit of it should require mandatory therapy sessions for all the boomers involved. How is this not the #1 freedom worth fighting for. Jesus wanted us to make the choice. When you teach a minor your beliefs, you rob them of their own. It makes you the Devil.
  • Facebook User: See how I can have my beliefs and let everyone else have theirs too? How fucking hard is it, really.

    boomers gonna boom 🤮🤢