“My agenda is to indoctrinate and proselytize to every one of your children.” That’s what a local pastor said — out loud — while interrupting a LifeWise Academy awareness event. For anyone still wondering what’s really driving these Released Time programs: there it is. This is exactly why parents are speaking up. LifeWise can dress… Read More

🚨 South Madison, Indiana: Special Treatment for LifeWise Students 🚨 In South Madison, Indiana, a public school teacher publicly instructed parents to email another district employee to have their child’s class schedule completely rearranged to fit around LifeWise Bible classes. According to the post (since edited), students who miss Spanish due to LifeWise “should not… Read More

Did we mention we’re also on TikTok!? It’s chaotic, factual, and mildly unhinged. Go use your scrolling powers for good trouble ✨✨✨💖 View original post on Facebook Read More

🚨Angola, Indiana — Community Conversation on LifeWise Earlier this week, SEA was invited by the Steuben County Democrats to present in Angola, Indiana about LifeWise Academy and Released Time Religious Instruction. SEA has hosted and joined dozens of town halls, panels, and community briefings nationwide to raise awareness and share concrete concerns. We routinely invite… Read More

“Nothing says ‘freedom’ like a captive audience of public-school children. 🇺🇸🫡 Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) was meant as a narrow accommodation — off-campus, privately run, parent-consented religious classes that schools neither promote nor facilitate. Some long-standing Jewish, Catholic, or Latter-day Saint programs still follow that rule of law carefully: meeting during lunch or recess,… Read More

Posted in our private group – “Lifewise is starting in my kids’ school this month and they are beginning with only 4th graders. They were at our elementary trunk or treat tonight and had special candy for the 4th graders only. I didn’t get to see them but I’m assuming they including an invitation to… Read More

🚨ARKANSAS 🚨 Public-Education Alert: Arkansas Voucher System Under Fire 🚨 Today the Little Rock School District (LRSD) has asked a federal court for permission to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new voucher program, the Educational Freedom Account (EFA) program. Why it matters: • LRSD argues that the voucher program diverts… Read More

📣 OHIO When “student-led” prayer isn’t really student-led. After the Lakota East/West game, a large on-field prayer circle was publicly celebrated on Facebook — and when a community member questioned it, a coach jumped in to defend his own participation. Lakota Local SchoolsLakota WestLakota East High SchoolWCPO 9 Enquirer – Cincinnati and Kentucky Let’s be… Read More

🚨OHIO🚨 ⚠️ Ohio’s “School Chaplain” Bill Crosses the Line ⚠️ Ohio lawmakers are trying to bring chaplains into public schools. House Bill 240 — backed by 10 Republican legislators — would let districts hire or accept volunteer “chaplains” to counsel and mentor students.These chaplains would not be licensed by the state board of education. They… Read More

🚨 Colorado Just Crossed a Line 🚨 A “public Christian school” has quietly opened in southern Colorado — Riverstone Academy, authorized by a BOCES (a cooperative of school districts) and already calling itself “Colorado’s first Christian public school.” Let’s be clear:Public schools cannot be religious. Period.The Colorado Constitution explicitly requires that public education be nonsectarian… Read More

Let’s stop pretending “released time” is about freedom. When only one faith gets the funding, the publicity, and the privilege — that’s not freedom. That’s favoritism, plain and simple. 🚫 #KeepSchoolsSecular #SeparationOfChurchAndState #LifeWise #RTRI #PublicSchools View original post on Facebook Read More

We’ve allllll seen it by now: LifeWise’s “three-part formula” — off school property, privately funded, and parent-permitted. We’ve heard it repeated ad nauseam by LifeWise, their promoters, supporters, their shoddy legal team, First Liberty Institute, school districts, reporters—the whole media echo chamber. 📣 By now, it’s probably been thrown in your face a couple dozen… Read More

🚨 Another “Faith-Based” Flyer Makes Its Way Into Public Schools Yesterday, a parent in Findlay, Ohio shared this brochure that her 4th grader brought home from school — promoting an American Heritage Girls troop. At first glance, it might look like an ordinary scouting program. But a closer read tells a different story. Phrases like… Read More

🚨 West Virginia, Hampshire County — heads up. This isn’t just a “poll.”It’s a test balloon for whether the community will accept pulling kids out of class for religious instruction under the banner of “character education.” Let’s be clear:Public schools already teach character — through evidence-based social-emotional learning, civic engagement, and inclusive community values.What they… Read More

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Shared in our national public group – Join the conversation here ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AXwzEvrrN/?mibextid= Secular Education Association View original post on Facebook Read More