Secular Education Association

🚨 Ashland, OH — Time to Demand Accountability.🚨 This week, LifeWise and local officials celebrated a new sidewalk physically connecting Taft Intermediate directly to Southview Grace Brethren Church — the church that houses LifeWise classes. This wasn’t just a church project. Public officials stood shoulder-to-shoulder with LifeWise leadership to celebrate and pray over it. •… Read More

🚨 Vermilion, OH Update 🚨 This week, LifeWise Academy held an open house for its new chapter at Vermilion Elementary — and the community showed up to push back. ✊ 📚 Parents, educators, and SEA members stood outside with signs to say loud and clear: public school hours should be for public school education. A… Read More

💙Community Power in Action – Grandview Heights, OH 💙 Shared in our group -“Just want to share a small win against LifeWise in Grandview Heights, Ohio 💪🏼 After strong community feedback, the Grandview Heights Boosters have chosen to return LifeWise Academy’s $1,500 sponsorship for an upcoming fundraiser. While it’s disappointing that LifeWise will still be… Read More

OHIO 🚨 LifeWise Expansion Comes With Real Harm 🚨 This school year, LifeWise Academy — a controversial Hilliard-based religious instruction program — will operate in 613 schools across 303 Ohio districts, nearly half the state. But families are already reporting serious consequences. ✡️ Rabbi Tina Sobo of Temple Israel Dayton, a mom of two Miamisburg… Read More

🚨OHIO🚨 🚨Clarification on NBC4’s LifeWise Coverage This week, NBC4 ran a story suggesting that Ohio schools were now required to allow candy, toys, and trinkets from release-time religious programs like LifeWise. That’s not accurate. 👉 What actually happened: • First Liberty’s letter focused on literature and free speech, arguing against blanket bans on all take-home… Read More

🌟 This is what REAL community care looks like. 🌟 A small Presbyterian congregation is launching an after-school program that includes homework help, music, yoga, Bible stories, and dinner — all centered on compassion. ✅ Every volunteer goes through BCI/FBI background checks (at the congregation’s expense).✅ They have a public, comprehensive child safety policy.✅ The… Read More

Posted in our private group – “Kettering Ohio…every year there’s a parade and a festival. The parade guidelines specifically state that no handouts of any sort are allowed. Guess who didn’t care? These people borrowed a LW bus from another district, and were armed with flyers and CANDY! I politely told the children who tried… Read More

🚨Iowa🚨 “East Mills Elementary School Principal Melissa Nielsen said the intention with starting with first and second graders is to build the program up year by year with the same pool of students, adding a grade each year.” East Mills School District “enrollees will attend classes on Wednesdays at the Malvern Public Library during lunch.… Read More

Our August Newsletter can be viewed here 👇https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Pii4PNPdD2Ab28keBhr9YaEsoV5ZYxj/view?usp=drivesdk Join SEA’s newsletter and never miss important news.📌 https://forms.gle/VHEmzq44cxnZfi6a7 What people are saying: Facebook User: AND…MORE EMBARRASSMENTS FOR MOMS FOR LIBERTY‼️ In the last two months alone, Moms for Liberty members and/or political candidates they’ve endorsed are facing serious charges, all of which it seems to me,… Read More

***post corrected*** previously reported as Doug Marrah this is actually Steve Paramore, NOT Doug Marrah. ⸻ 🚨 Ashland, Ohio 🚨 Once again, Ashland City Schools Superintendent Steve Paramore is posing with LifeWise Academy during school events — this time at open house — while allowing them to hand out candy to kids in exchange for… Read More

🇺🇸 Parents Nationwide — Your Voices Matter 📢 Earlier today we put out a call specifically to Ohio parents to share their experiences with LifeWise Academy. That remains important — and so does the bigger picture. LifeWise and similar Released Time Religious Instruction programs are spreading across the country, and families in many states are… Read More

🚨 Ohio Parents — Your Voices Matter 🚨 LifeWise is expanding into public schools across Ohio, and parents are raising serious concerns about its impact on students and classrooms. If you or your child have been affected by LifeWise, we want to hear from you. Whether you’re in Loudonville, Ashland, Greenville, or anywhere else in… Read More

🎉 Congratulations to Ohio County, WV for successfully stopping Lifewise in their district!! 🎉 Because of “great interest from the community, the board took it up, considered it closely, and it was a 3-2 vote to not permit the children to be taken out or a policy that permits that.” “What we accomplished tonight was… Read More

🚨 PragerU isn’t a university — it’s a far-right media company pushing Christian nationalist propaganda into our schools. 🚨 📚 PragerU’s Ties to Public Education- • State Partnerships: PragerU Kids has been officially approved for use in at least eight states, including Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma. Their materials are framed as “supplemental” curriculum but are… Read More

*edited to correct* This was actually handed out at Delphi Elementary 🚨 Carroll County, Indiana 🚨 Carroll Consolidated School Corp – this is unconstitutional. Parents received a flyer for the “Carroll County Religious Education Program.” It says kids in grades K–5 will leave the cafeteria at lunch and head down the hall to a classroom… Read More