What people are saying:

• Facebook User: Our school has scheduled Lifewise during our lunch hour, which is a 30-minute session to eat and 30 minute to play. In that time, Lifewise must transport, provide their message while the child has a “working lunch” and return them back to school. Personally, I feel that if a religious upbringing is important to your family, find time on Sundays, as my family did for church, or consider a private religious school where it is embedded in the curriculum. I am surprised by the parents who want to cut into their child’s lunchtime for this activity. I am also unsure if they have done a deep dive into what specific religious beliefs this group holds/represents, and I assume it is simply generic Christianity that is tolerant of ALL people, races, genders, families, and lifestyle choices. I also believe that parents assume the staff involved with Lifewise, who are responsible for the care of their children, are fingerprinted and background-checked for safety reasons. After all, you cannot just assume. Look at the history of the Catholic Church, sadly.
• Facebook User: And art and music too. We only see our kids once a week. It’s not ok. When our district participated in it I never ever saw those kids.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I taught K-6 art. Like you, I prepared lessons building upon art concepts, skills and techniques. It was difficult enough to try to “catch-up” a single student who missed a class due to illness. But to deal with 15 out of 26 students who were gone from their last art class is overwhelming. Do they miss out doing that 3-day clay project? What do the students who attend every art class do while I catch-up those who were at LifeWise? Granted the subjects: Art, Music and Phys. Ed. are not “tested”. But those classes teach lifelong skills that enhance a child’s self-esteem, develop their ability to cooperate with others to achieve a goal, help them appreciate the time and effort it took to create a work of art or a piece of music or a winning sports team. LifeWise should NOT deprive students by taking them out of Art, Music and PE instruction. LifeWise should NOT negatively impact a teacher’s instruction and curriculum.
• Facebook User: It should be an after-school program held at a facility not connected with the school. Schools are opening themselves up to so much liability having non-certified teachers in the building. Have these people even gone through background checks? Sexual abuse is rampant in these churches, and the school could be blamed.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User ohio has has three lifewise volunteers convicted of sexual abuse against a minor. And lifewise has done absolutely nothing about it because the abuse didnt take place within thier program. In fact when asked how they are going to change thier volunteer selection process to avoid selecting child rapists, they have said they dont need to change anything because the abuse did not happen within thier program. They put these monsters in front of our children and they see nothing wrong it.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Stop spreading lies. These teachers are not trans so they are not pedophiles.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User they are absolutely pedophiles and not transgender. Wtf is wrong with you? Secular Education Association clean up on aisle bigot.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Yes all trans are just pedophiles or retards. Nothing valid about their little crossdressing fetish. And Christians are disgusted by pedophiles Lifewise are good people I will defend from attacks by heathens and ghetto trash forever! And yes I wish your bigotry and intolerance would get cleaned up. I am proud to fight against bigotry and bea good person.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Still fewer than the liberals and trans.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I am not abigot I am a TERF. Which means I am a good person who supports women unlike the TRAs who all hate women and are misogynists. ONLY TERSF go to heaven.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User TERFs are bigots. Women are women. Happy Pride! ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜
    Go cry on Mace’s page.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I am sorry but you are delusional and confused. ONLY WOMEN WHO ARE BORN WOMEN ARE WOMEN! Men are not women and never will be. TERFS are heroes and responsible human beings. ONLY TERFS go to heaven. E
  • Facebook User: Facebook User America is healing. The degenerate crossdressing pedophiles have pushed too hard. The trevor project are all pedophiles getting off on mutilating confused children. They are all groomers. They should be binladened. But thankfully AMERICA IS HEALING! https://www.advocate.com/politics/new-poll-shows-support-for-lgbtq-rights-continues-to-drop-in-the-u-s
  • Facebook User: Facebook User aw, so triggered. There’s several women who are XY who have pregnancies. The world is not as limited as your brain.
    Have the day you deserve and Happy Pride!
    ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜
  • Facebook User: Facebook User XY is male gender. They are not women. They did not get pregnant. Nice try liar. Why do you hate women so much you wnat to allow delusional degenrtae pedophile men to roep play as women? BLACKFACE AND WOMANFACE ARE IDENTICALLY BAD!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User My day will be great. I have a meeting with the county commissioners to make being trans a criminal offense hopefully. We will also be getting the business license for a couple of food trucks that dared to disobey the directive to not support the local pedophile rally yanked. We the good guys will win or we will leave a scorched earth behind. Enjoy Sacred heart month and Mental health Awareness month. And never forget pride goeth before the fall.
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  • Facebook User: Facebook User Oh look t these confused LARPS playing in WOMANFACE. LOOK at LLEN PAGE the WOMAn who mutilated herself. They all belong in an asylum until theya re forced to stop roileplaying.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Women with XY chromosomes (typically associated with Swyer Syndrome or complete gonadal dysgenesis) can achieve pregnancy and give birth. Because they are born with a uterus and fallopian tubes but non-functioning “streak” gonads, they require In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) with donor eggs and hormone therapy.
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24313430/
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Goddess bless your wee heart and tinier parts with chronic male loneliness.
• Facebook User: Okay so I am not even Christian, in fact I hate the idea of it. But my kids go to lifewise. They genuinely enjoy it it offers a social outlet with the religious tone being very light. Our son opted out and he got extra study hall time and he said he actually enjoys it because he can get help from his teachers easier during that time. It’s never required, and the kids are free to opt out anytime.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User do you expose your children to all religions so that they can make an informed decision? Or is LifeWise their only religious exposure?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User as stated above I’m not Christian I let my childern explore their own paths
  • Facebook User: Facebook User have you read the curriculum? How are you okay with antisemitism? The kids being taught junk science? How old are your kids?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User you’re the parent and you are free to do what you choose. But if you are only exposing them to LifeWise Christianity, are they choosing their own path or are they being indoctrinated?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User and how old are those kids? What did you do to vett Lifewise before exposing them?
  • Facebook User: Dana Fessler How touching. Your children get to go to a very “light” religious social outlet while your other child and lemme guess other peoples children whom attend a public school for an education! Have to go to an extra study hall. What a rewarding experience for being forced to have to opt out of religion in public schools when it shouldn’t even be there in the first place🤷🏼‍♀️
  • Facebook User: I think maybe the point of this post is outside of your child’s experience.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User obviously you have no clue what the curriculum is. “Light religious tone” what the actual. Shame on clueless parents like yourself. Your child is being taught antisemitism! They are being taught the world is only 6000 years old and that YOU will go to hell. How is that okay????
  • Facebook User: Facebook User So a punishment? Either do the Christian thing or get study hall as a kid that would annoy me.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Lifewise is not exploring their own path. It is getting dropped off at a very specific destination before they can even read the map.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User a lot of school have like club times and other things during the day I just don’t see it being a big deal the social emotional aspect can be beneficial.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I must have missed the part where “special clubs” required a legal loophole to sneak kids off school property during reading time.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User you don’t see how teaching your kids to hate Jewish kids isn’t a BIG DEAL? Again you don’t seem to know what is being taught!!!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User you hate the idea of Christianity, but send your kids to a Southern-Baptist based program where the child safety policies are so lax they completely lost a kid and a stranger brought her back to the school? I’ll take things that never happened for $1000, Alex. And how do your kids both go and get the extra study hall for kids who don’t go?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User especially when that “study hall” was probably instructional time before Lifewise.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User why are you okay being an antisemitic???
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Avoiding the question speaks volumes. Discrimination affects real people. Refusing to answer just shows Facebook User cannot defend the harmful views she supports
• Facebook User: I thought Lifewise teachers are not allowed to teach in the school building.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User yeaaa that’s how it’s supposed to be but that’s not reality
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  • Facebook User: It’s a public space. Anyone can use a school if they apply
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I missed something, what public space?
  • Facebook User: Not during the school day. Major safety issue.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User It is literally a crime for Lifewise to hold class inside the school. The Supreme Court says they have to take their snacks and leave the property.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User not during the school day since Columbine. Lifewise’s “background checks” do not meet school standards.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User its not an issue of space at all. School is being used for religious education.
• Facebook User: Are you referring to a specific district? Many schools in my area have lifewise and they all do the schedule different. Most use a “study hall” non instructional people once a week for life wise. Also I’ve not heard of any kids missing specials to make up class work in a very long time, that’s definitely not common practice in my area.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User what FIRST GRADER needs a study hall? No, kids are being robbed of education time.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User obviously study halls are for older kids, for elementary it’s done differently 🙄 logic has left the building.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I agree, logic did leave the building when schools assist Lifewise.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User so what’s funny about antisemitism?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Fabricating facts to defend a Christian Nationalist Academy that exploits legal loopholes is a pathetic look. First graders ARE losing vital school time, and you are lying to yourself to justify it. Clearly you are someone who chooses dishonesty over decency.
  • Facebook User: Facebook Userelementary kids don’t have study hall
• Facebook User: Did the students choose to go to Lifewise?
  Yes?
  So what’s the issue?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User parents choose. Kids want to go for the food and lack of challenge.
    Issues? Neglect, pedophiles, antisemitism, bigotry, junk science to name a few.
  • Facebook User: 🍕They need an adult to buy a rated-R movie ticket
  • Facebook User: Facebook User but Lifewise Academy will describe an R rated film to seven year olds!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User 🍿 Lifewise: Where parents think they are signing their kids up for Noah Ark coloring pages but after a few snacks are passed out they get a live-action re-cap of The Passion of the Christ instead.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I wonder if teachers in public schools are being outed for pedo tendencies or pushing their own beliefs? I had terrible teachers growing up who had no problem making comments about girls in class and never once were handled accordingly. And now with my own kids in public schools, I’ve had too many conversations with principals and teachers about the lack of professionalism they have, sharing their personal beliefs and views with students and making them “facts”
  • Facebook User: Facebook User yes, Renee Beck was outted in Loudonville and lost her license permanently however places like Lifewise either didn’t check or decided to forgive. All I know is it took WEEKS for Lifewise to fire her.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User from Lifewise? Im asking about public teachers.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I was going to tag you in this article, but you found it first
  • Facebook User: Facebook User #1 they are missing school time. #2 LIFEWISE DOESN’T BELONG IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!
    #3. IF religious education is SO VERY IMPORTANT to you, Go. To. Church. I’m SURE there are plenty of empty seats available.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User religious freedom is a 1st amendment right, not education
  • Facebook User: Facebook User R-rated movies aren’t protected by the 1st amendment, religious freedom is. Besides, Lifewise gets the parents’ consent as well. So what’s the issue?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Then freely, GO! Just not in public schools, funded by taxes. You know, that whole separation of church and state thing.
    Education is a HUMAN RIGHT, aimed at allowing people to pull themselves from poverty, aims to eliminate inequality -something MAGA(T)S don’t agree with.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Ah yes, the famous First Amendment Right to hijack a public school schedule so you can terrify children with adult movie plots. So yeah, r-rated movies aren’t protected, but using public school time to give 7 year olds a graphic summary of one is? Got it…..
  • Facebook User: Facebook User parents are aware their kids are being taught about rated R gore? I highly doubt that.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User yes, fired from public schools and HIRED by LifeWise!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User how much does LifeWise pay you?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User there is NO constitutional right to RTRI. If you choose secular education you don’t get to limit that time for your laziness.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User its been affirmed and re-affirmed that its presence in schools equals establishing and respecting a specific religion in schools. It doesn’t matter if it’s optional, the school is using taxpayer funds to carry out religious instruction.
• Facebook User: Get this brainwashing out of our schools. All of it. Even the kids who opt out have a class with LW “teachers.”
  • Facebook User: Facebook UserThat’s rich coming from people who think the Genderbread Person needed to be so required that parents had to get the Supreme Court to disagree. Why is progressive brainwashing better than religious?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User progressive brainwashing is an oxymoron. The whole idea of education is to expose students to a wide variety of ideas and methods. Religious brainwashing is the polar opposite. “This way or you’re going to hell.” “This is the only path to salvation.” Or even more basically…..”This is god.” If religions are so redemptive, students will figure that out. But the wider experience is that religion was invented by frightened men to control women. Look at the Christian nationalists, whose goal is to take away YOUR right to vote. Look at the southern baptists who are voting to disallow female preachers. Look at the myriad religions who do not allow women in leadership (Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists).
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Bradford Ohio for one.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User You are the sort why we absolutely need this in schools.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User the what person?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I don’t see any proof of this. They have a bus and its a 3 minute bus ride to their host church. Please let us know what you’ve seen.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Elmwood Elementary for one.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User this is during school hours. Absolutely not appropriate for public schools. If you want your kids taught relying, send them to a parochial school. I do not want one cent of my tax dollars paying for a school that allows religious instruction. Religion is probably the worst invention of men. And men did invent it to suppress and oppress women.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I’m not arguing for this. I’m actually the State Lead for Ohio and SEA. I’m the one showing up and questioning Lifewise right to their face.
• Facebook User: Why would parents sign their kids up to miss their actual schooling?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User when Lifewise lobbies state legislatures, a lot of parents say they want it so the kids can play more sports on weekends instead of going to church. 🙄 Facebook User
  • Facebook User: Lyn Lamperts, This is the million-dollar question. I feel like American priorities are so out of whack. Instead of soccer on a Sunday morning, how about taking your family back to church? Statistics show that fewer than 2% of NCAA athletes go pro, but morals, values, and ethics last a lifetime. Reprioritize if it matters to you. You can’t always have your cake and eat it too, which is what Americans push for to a nauseating level.
• Facebook User: Sounds like many parents would prefer their children go to Lifewise than go to PE. Why do you care? Do you have a differing pedagogical philosophy than the parents? Do you think that it is a moral failing to prefer Lifewise over PE? Why should your preferred view of education be the one that is enforced? Do parents not get a say in their children’s education? Or do parents have to surrender all rights and opinions to the state and the government if they choose to enroll their children in the taxpayer-funded government education system?
• Facebook User: classic case of Indoctrinating children, something the religious right always claim everyone else is doing. Accusation is always a confession of guilt.
• Facebook User: People against GOD!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User false, many of SEA are religious. We are FOR protecting education time and students. Religious freedom is of and from. The better question is why aren’t YOU for protecting students and education time?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User well, your christian god who claims to be all powerful is only the 4th or 5th most popular god in the world, after Buddha, Muslims, Hindu and possibly Taoist.
    I guess that love me or be dammed for eternity threat is not so popular after all.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User why do you accuse me of picking a God? I follow GATU (The Great Architect of the Universe)
  • Facebook User: In public schools? Yes!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I will quote you
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    People against GOD!”
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Believing in science and math isn’t “against God” it is called learning. If your faith is too weak to handle a secular school, that is a YOU problem….. 🤷🏼‍♀️
  • Facebook User: Facebook User pick a lane…..
• Facebook User: We only have PE one day a week.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User all the more reason not to miss it for RTRI. Especially since kids receive a grade.
• Facebook User: No, No and NO!!
• Facebook User: Concerning.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User groomer.
  • Facebook User: Nilda Cortes concerning because there have been 3 volunteers in ohio convicted and even plead guilty to rape of a minor. Thats why its concerning. Because church is a great place for bad people to hide and no one questions thier motives.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I see another troll hiding behind a keyboard. I guess I could call you all sorts of things too from behind a screen, but I find that a bit childish. And if me asking how so makes me a groomer, that gives me enough context to see your view on life would not allow for much intellectual conversation- just name calling.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Lifewise is a Christian Nationalist organization, backed by the Heritage Foundation and private donors. They are not vetted, nor is their message. The real reason for Lifewise is to help bring chaos to public schools, divide and conquer. It’s all in project 2025.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User what’s concerning is the most obvious reason that this is an infringement on separation of church and state. That may not matter to some, but since the US Constitution is the supreme law of the Land, it DOES matter.
    All of us taxpayers invest in each student having access to a free public education. When students are removed from their school day for an alternate education, we are still paying for that time. Essentially, we are funding the students attending religious education during the school day.
    The concern is also on the safety of students. The background checks of instructors and administrators for Life wise must have a break in their process with the reports of sexual crimes so soon after getting this organization going.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User if you supoort RTRI and Lifewise then you support loss of education time, antisemitism, and propagation of bigotry.
  • Facebook User: Separation of church and state doesn’t seem to matter to you?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User we should! Let me know when you’re free.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I really appreciate your response and your points. I agree that if tax payers are paying into public schools, there should be say in what happens in schools. That being said, if said tax payers want to pull their kids from public school to send them to private schools, they should also be able to do so and see a “credit” in their taxes. Unfortunately, that’s not the case and where folks are fighting to have that be possible, those who oppose religious freedoms in public schools are also opposed to these taxpayers having a credit on taxes if they pull their children. So what is the solution? They have to stay quiet about their beliefs AND pay for private school tuition while also paying taxes? Not all “religious people” can afford to pay for private school. They should be able to have a choice and option for their child.

    And for the record, I don’t think this should be for only Christian believers. Muslims, atheists and every belief in between has the option to utilize RTRI

  • Facebook User: Facebook User absolutely.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User they are getting vouchers
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  • Facebook User: Facebook User Oh it’s bad when Oklahoma is correct about something.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User Oklahoma isn’t even correct in this instance. The way this is written makes it sound that way but no. And we have posted about this as well….
  • Facebook User: Facebook User why post unoriginal RPS bullshit here? 2 weeks and 1 year ago SEA posted this.
    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B3jZx2s5z/
• Facebook User: Get rid of that shit. It has zero place in a school. Separation of church and state. Ffs 🤦‍♂️
• Facebook User: The problem is that far too many people refuse to accept morality, or teach morality or go to church. Or if they go to church its some new age heathen crap that does not teach morality and decent behavior but teaches woke ideology of satanic sin. We have ghetto trash teaching that its okay to steal and lie and cheat. We have degenerate “teachers” telling students they can change their gender instead of trying to help cure them. We have allowed this world to turn to evil and demonic forces. This is why LIFEWISE is important and should be required in every school. If people will not teach morality at home then it MUST be taught in school otherwise the kids will wind up in jail and learning it there.