(1) Ask your school board to update its facility use policies to protect
students from assaults on their emotional and psychological well-being.
Religion is not an excuse to manipulate, shame, and intimidate
children. Although public schools cannot exclude Good News Clubs on
church-state separation grounds, they can exclude them for their
vulgar attacks on a child’s self esteem.
(2) Share this website with others through Facebook, Twitter, or other
social media. Blog about it.
(3) If you are a parent of a schoolchild, attend the Good News Club. With calm and
respectful resolve, and without making any disturbance, let the instructor know that you
are there to monitor. Because the school is a limited “public forum,” you may have a
right to be there. When you are there, pay close attention to the “dark heart” themes of
sin and punishment. Notice when teachers attempt to get children to internalize shame or
afraid of “thinking” thoughts that might “displease God.” Observe the manipulative
alternation between traumatizing themes and conditional acceptance.
(4) Download and print out the flyers below. Give copies to Good News Club instructors,
sponsoring church pastors, members of the media, the school principal and school board
members. Express your concerns.
Dr. Valerie Tarico, a psychologist, offers several additional suggestions here. See also these FFRF suggestions.
Raise Your Voice
Protect the Emotional, Psychological, and Intellectual Well-Being of Children
If you are a Good News Club sponsoring church, volunteer or worker, have the conscience and courage to acknowledge
the curriculum’s severity, question it, and stop! It is madness to debase children this way!
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