🚨 LIFEWISE LEFT A 7-YEAR-OLD CHILD BEHIND — THEN SENT THREE DIFFERENT STORIES ABOUT IT 🚨 We have obtained multiple internal LifeWise emails sent to parents after a seven-year-old child was abandoned during the school day in Decatur, Indiana. The emails don’t match each other.And none of them match what actually happened. 📧 Email #1… Read More

🚨 Why Is a Public Education Agency Promoting LifeWise Academy? 🚨 This listing comes directly from the Putnam County Educational Service Center (PCESC) — a publicly funded government education agency in Ohio. 🔗 PCESC website: https://www.putnamcountyesc.org/ On PCESC’s official Resource Directory, families can find a listing for LifeWise Academy (Ottawa Elementary) — a private religious… Read More

How LifeWise Quietly Engineered State Power — and Why Ohio Was Only the Beginning In fall 2023, Ohio school boards were debating whether LifeWise Academy should be allowed to pull students out of class for religious instruction. Parents raised concerns.Boards asked questions.Some districts hesitated. Then Dave Yost Attorney General/ Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sent… Read More

These are the voices school boards are supposed to hear. During the Everett Public Schools.WA School Board meeting, parent after parent, educator after educator, and community member after community member used public comment to speak out against LifeWise Academy and released-time programs. These were not outside groups. They were people who live in the district… Read More

🎁 Secular Education Association Holiday Giveaway 🎁 We’re excited to announce the first annual Secular Education Association Holiday Giveaway! To say thank you for supporting our work, SEA will randomly select three winners to receive any item of their choice from our merch shop — completely free. How to enter:➡️ Sign up for our email… Read More

🚨 THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PULL KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL FOR RELIGIOUS PROGRAMMING 🚨 A child was left behind at a church while the rest of the group was transported back to school during a LifeWise transition. Adults realized after the fact that a child was missing.There was confusion over who was responsible… Read More

🎄 When a Public School Holiday Concert Becomes a Religious Pageant 🎄 These photos are from a public school concert at Elgin Local Schools. Elgin Comets What families expected: a seasonal music program.What actually happened: a full Nativity scene, complete with angels, shepherds, crowns, and explicit Christian imagery — staged during the school day, on… Read More

Everett, Washington is showing the rest of the country exactly what it looks like when a community stands up to LifeWise and its lawyers. 💥💪 This week, Everett Public Schools.WA families packed the school board meeting after LifeWise — backed by national legal groups First Liberty Institute and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner — threatened to… Read More

🚨OHIO🚨 What people are saying: Facebook User: The governor in Texas pushed for the commandments to be put in every classroom in every Texas school. That case is in the courts. In the interim, they are not displayed. Those that were put up had to be taken down. I fought this 40 years ago. I… Read More

🚨 This is NOT appropriate. At all.🚨 LifeWise Academy in Norwalk, Ohio proudly posted photos of staff washing children’s feet as part of a “Journey to the Cross” lesson. Public school students — minors — were taken off campus during the school day and placed into an adult-led religious ritual involving physical contact and a… Read More

🚨OHIO – Northwest🚨 Something Important Is Happening at Anthony Wayne — and Families Deserve the Full Story Over the past few days, Anthony Wayne families have shared screenshots, flyers, and posts about a high-school “community engagement” project that asked students to raise money for The Nest, Bowling Green. At first glance, it looked like a… Read More

WASHINGTON Everett Public Schools.WA Board Member Mr. Adkins did something rare in today’s climate: he spoke the truth plainly about LifeWise Academy’s tactics, its extremist affiliations, and the harm these programs cause to real students and families. Everett has faced months of sustained pressure from LifeWise organizers — including a legal threat letter demanding special… Read More

New Featured Article in Church & State Magazine! We’re proud to share that Secular Education Association’s Executive Director, Molly Gaines, is featured in the December 2025 issue of Church & State Magazine, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The article offers a clear, accessible look at the rapid rise of Released… Read More

🚨TENNESSEE🚨 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐈𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲? Blount County Schools ᴊᴜsᴛ voted to send a religious release time policy to committee — a move that could allow students to leave class during the school day for Bible instruction run by the Elgin Children’s Foundation.… Read More

🚨OHIO 🚨 Ohio lawmakers just introduced a bipartisan bill to help schools offer kosher and halal meal options. It’s a small grant program with one simple purpose: Make sure Jewish and Muslim students can eat lunch without violating their faith. That’s it.No class time lost.No religious group gaining access to students.No disruption of instruction. Just… Read More