Okay, Have A Gay Day shared this and we need to talk about it. 😳 First, important context: this is not actually a children’s Bible. It comes from Awkward Moments (Not Found in Your Average) Children’s Bible, which uses illustrations to highlight bizarre, violent, sexual, or otherwise very-not-Sunday-school-friendly Bible stories. BUT THE STORY ITSELF? Yep.… Read More

👀 How close is LifeWise to your school? LifeWise pulls public school students out of the school day for off-site Christian instruction — and it’s spreading well beyond Ohio. 🗺️ Check the map. Search your district. Then look around you. 📍 map.seculareducationassociation.org Know what’s happening before it’s on your doorstep. What people are saying: Facebook… Read More

👀 Think LifeWise is just an Ohio problem? Take a closer look. It may already be a lot closer to home than you think. LifeWise removes public school students from the school day for off-site Christian instruction — and it’s organizing in districts across the country. Swipe through the maps. 🗺️ Then search your own… Read More

We’ve talked about the “Success Sequence” before. But this week, Center for Christian Virtue is celebrating getting it into Ohio education curriculum. So let’s talk about what students are actually being told — and the worldview behind it. The Success Sequence says the path to avoiding poverty is: -Graduate high school.-Get a full-time job.-Get married… Read More

LifeWise’s favorite legal talking point leaves out the most inconvenient part of Zorach: THE PUBLIC SCHOOL HAD TO REMAIN NEUTRAL. Not recruit.Not advertise.Not fundraise.Not use school staff to track or administer participation.Not help the ministry grow. So no — “off campus, privately funded, parent permitted” is not a magic constitutional formula. Zorach upheld one program… Read More

🚨 THIS IS NOT JUST A NEW CHRISTIAN-SCHOOL NETWORK. IT IS AN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DEFUNDING, DIVIDING AND RELIGIOUSLY RESHAPING PUBLIC EDUCATION. 🚨 Yesterday, we introduced you to Alaska Family Action and the national political network operating behind it. Then, exactly one week ago, Alaska Family Council announced that it is “linking arms” with Aaron Baer’s… Read More

🚨ALASKA HAS ALASKA FAMILY ACTION. Different name 👉 The SAME national policy network. Family Policy Alliance lists Alaska Family Action as its Alaska state ally. Alaska Family Action is the public-policy subsidiary of Alaska Family Council So what are Alaska Family Action and its affiliated Alaska Family Council doing in Alaska? 👀 Once again, public… Read More

Well, hello there, Family Policy Alliance 👋🙃 Glad to see our posts connecting the dots are reaching the right people. Welcome to SEA! 💀 What people are saying: Facebook User: These same folks Secular Education Association ? Wow, so dominionist, so fascist. 🙄 View original post on Facebook Read More

🚨 Is your PUBLIC elementary school advertising enrollment for a Christian ministry? Because Callisburg Elementary School in Texas is. They aren’t just allowing students to leave for LifeWise Academy…The school itself is sharing LifeWise enrollment advertising on its official Facebook page. 🚨LifeWise also announced that its team would be inside the elementary school during a… Read More

🚨Nearly 60%. LifeWise Eastern Pulaski says it served 228 students last school year at Eastern Pulaski Elementary School in Winamac, Indiana. LifeWise serves grades 1–5 at this school. Available enrollment figures put those grades at roughly 390 students. 228 out of roughly 390 = about 58–59%. That’s nearly 6 out of every 10 students in… Read More

This is a school board meeting for PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Blount County, Tennessee. Watch how this meeting opens. And during this very same meeting, the Blount County Board of Education voted to allow the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in its public schools. Then they approved an agreement with the Elgin Children’s Foundation allowing… Read More

🚨NORTH CAROLINA: this is what happens when a community starts pushing back. LifeWise Academy had become a major controversy in New Hanover County. 👀Parents and community members were showing up at school board meetings. The issue was big enough that the board voted unanimously to hold a dedicated public hearing before deciding whether LifeWise should… Read More

Apparently Paden City Elementary in West Virginia doesn’t understand they have a constitutional responsibility to remain neutral and not endorse religious programming. This is exactly what inherent coercion looks like. Students being told by their school, on the school’s official platform, that they can’t grow as a whole person without LifeWise’s indoctrination. In 1992 in… Read More

The New Hanover County Board of Education has been making headlines in North Carolina this week for voting 5-1 in favor of cancelling a public hearing on LifeWise Academy that had already been planned for quite some time. Parents and activists in the community were highly anticipating this hearing, which was expected to draw a… Read More

🎉 Back to school season can be an exciting time for students. 🎉 It can also be intimidating. It’s a time when students are faced with an onslaught of changes. New buildings, new faces, new teachers, new schedules, new lessons and new routines. These experiences are exactly why it is so imperative for public schools… Read More