🤝 Stronger Together, Smarter Together 🤝 At SEA, we’re thrilled to see so many parents, educators, and advocates raising awareness about protecting public schools. That momentum is exactly what we hoped to spark. But awareness is most powerful when it’s accurate and when we work together.SEA has spent years building research, contacts, and resources to… Read More

🚨 Update on LifeWise’s court filing:LifeWise is telling the Ohio Supreme Court that—because it’s a religious organization—it has a “clear legal right to finality” over its employment decisions, free from review by a “secular tribunal.” It also accuses the former employee of “continuous, unrepentant” misconduct under its handbook. 🔎 In plain terms:LifeWise is telling the… Read More

🚨 Indiana — Muncie Area 🚨 Tomorrow (Thu, Oct 2) from 6–8 PM, join the Secular Education Association at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Muncie for “Protecting Public Schools from Religious Influence.” We’ll cover: • LifeWise and other school-day religious programs • How we got here (the history + the players) • What these efforts… Read More

🚨OHIO🚨 ACTION ALERT: HB 57 Expands Religious Released-Time During the Public School Day 🚨 Ohio lawmakers just passed Sub. HB 57 — a bill that rewrites the state’s released-time statute to let districts excuse students for much more of the school day to attend off-campus religious programs such as LifeWise Academy. ⚠️ How it passed:… Read More

🚨 PARENTS: WATCH FOR “MAGIC SHOW” PITCHES IN SCHOOLS 🚨 This week at Harmon Middle School in Pickerington Ohio- parents reported that an “illusion show” was brought into a public-school assembly as a program about bullying and peer pressure.That part seemed harmless — until every child went home with a free family ticket to a… Read More

🚨 “First bribe of the year 🤗” — straight from an Ohio specials teacher. This is how LifeWise kicks off the school year: cookies shaped like their red bus, with a cheerful note hoping the program will continue to be a “blessing” to the staff. Let’s be clear: public-school teachers don’t need sweets from a… Read More

🚨 BREAKING: Ohio’s HB 486 — the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act” — is a Christian-nationalist push to rewrite history inside public classrooms. Ohio lawmakers just introduced HB 486, a bill that would require public schools to teach a one-sided, “positive” history of Christianity in America — while ignoring the harm done in Christianity’s name,… Read More

🚨KENTUCKY – pay attention! We hope you’re following Kentucky Citizens for Democracy.🚨 View original post on Facebook Read More

“Yet again, President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission demonstrated that its true purpose is to advance a Christian Nationalist agenda and impose one narrow religious view on the nation’s public school children. The speakers at today’s hearing made that clear – from the former high school football coach whose attorneys spun what one federal judge called… Read More

In a recent interview with The Statehouse News Bureau, LifeWise CEO Joel Penton said he “doesn’t hear ‘real reports’ of children who attend LifeWise ostracizing others who don’t.” That dismissive line is one we hear again and again from LifeWise supporters as they try to discredit the documented accounts of bullying and exclusion that this… Read More

🚨 This Is What Happens When the Debate Gets Personal Instead of Civil 🚨 In Salem and Richfield, Ohio; neighbors who’ve raised concerns about LifeWise Academy and who simply put up yard signs — “Revere Citizens AGAINST LifeWise Academy” and a campaign sign for Heather Smith, a school-board candidate who hosted SEA at a recent… Read More

LifeWise at Tri-County North: THIS Is Who’s Influencing Kids During the School Day – Where: Tri-County North Local School District (Lewisburg, OH) Who: LifeWise’s new hire Lilly Hobbs, co-host of A Few Minutes With The Few and leader of “The Few”ministry/podcast. Why it matters:LifeWise says it “comes alongside” public schools—then platforms voices pushing parents to… Read More

✨ Did you miss our last webinar?No worries—you can catch the replay on YouTube! 🎥 The Secular Education Association was honored to host Dr. Chuck Riedesel and Steve Ghikadis for a thoughtful, timely discussion on how to have productive conversations with people who hold different beliefs—whether religious or political. Their insights on building bridges instead… Read More

Shared in our private group. Join the conversation – https://www.facebook.com/groups/secularedassociat What people are saying: Secular Education Association: Secular Education Association Facebook User: This is on the schools. They should DEMAND permission slips be renewed each school year. So that the CHOICE remains with the PARENTS. Facebook User: I am curious as to how many of… Read More

🚨 Parents in Centerville City Schools, Ohio (and EVERYWHERE LifeWise operates) — please read: 🚨 We’ve received multiple reports from parents about a serious enrollment loophole in LifeWise’s sign-up process. 👉 Parents have reported that anyone with the sign’s QR-code link could initiate enrollment for a child — and only one parent’s signature was required,… Read More