Prayer, Bible lessons and a big red bus: How an Ohio group is bringing God to public school

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lifewise-academy-public-school-christian-church-rcna142172

WHITEHALL, Ohio — After a morning lesson on multiplying fractions, about half of the students in a fifth-grade class at Etna Road Elementary School packed up their work and headed to the campus library.

The other half, all wearing matching red T-shirts, put on their coats, lined up single-file and boarded a red bus with the words “LifeWise Academy” painted on the side.

While their classmates back at school browsed shelves of books, the children on the bus sang praise to Jesus.

“For there is no other name ... by which we must be saved.”

The students soon arrived at a church a half-mile away where, for the next 30 minutes, they would pray, read the Bible and sing worship songs — activities that have become a routine part of their week thanks to an Ohio-based nonprofit on a mission to put God back in the public school day.

LifeWise Academy is permitted under a pair of little-known, decades-old U.S. Supreme Court rulings that allow for off-campus religious instruction during school hours.

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This is disturbing

[exboyfil]

1. So what is not getting done in the school day

to accommodate this activity?

[msongs]

2. grooming nt

[musette_sf]

3. "little-known, decades-old"

I guess they are, now. These rulings were followed in NYC public schools when I was a kid. It was called “Released Time”. Every Wednesday afternoon, we were released from class in the afternoon to attend religious instruction at the church/temple of our (parents’) choice. Most kids went and the few “nones” stayed in the classroom and read or did art.

I went to grade school first in CT before we moved to NYC, and there was no weekly “released time” imposed. Church was church and it was on Sunday.

All that being said, I hated Released Time. Sunday was more than enough religion for me. These rulings need to be ended IMO.