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Schools with LifeWise programs do NOT improve attendance, academic performance, or result in fewer disciplinary actions. In 2023, LifeWise commissioned and paid for its own study, making unverifiable claims that schools with LifeWise programs offered to students helped improve overall attendance, academic performance and fewer disciplinary action. LifeWise's paid-for study has been refuted before. Honesty for Ohio Education disputes the study's highly flawed and sometimes pur

We are excited to share an amazing resource for Western Washington voters! MySchoolBoard.info has school board candidate info for public...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Respect Public Schools - Washington Endorses Shaina Langley for Everett School Board EVERETT. [08] September 2025...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Respect Public Schools - Washington Endorses Tom Clarke for Everett School Board EVERETT. [02] September 2025 --...

After its founder publicly and proudly praised his organization’s failure to protect children from serious potential harm, LifeWise has...

Broadcast this past Monday, LifeWise founder Joel Penton stated publicly in an interview for NBC4 in Columbus, OH, that he welcomes the...

With little fanfare, LifeWise Academy has changed their vision statement. Where once they provided plausible deniability, saying that...

The last date to vote in the primaries in Washington is this Tuesday, August 5 .  Respect Public Schools - Washington does not endorse or...

Last week, we talked about how important it is to vote in your district’s primary, and this week we want to alert you to some key primary...

For the past couple of weeks, we have given examples of small, but impactful actions you can take to help protect students in public...

Tell the Everett School District that you are tired of their inaction in protecting our public school students from Christian...

Many in our community are feeling hopeless and lost in the wake of recent events, not only in this last week, but in the last several...

I know my children are not unique in this, but trying to get them out the door in the morning is almost impossible. On school days they...

Don't think that school districts can keep organizations dedicated to religious indoctrination from infiltrating our public schools?...

LifeWise bills itself as an optional nondenominational “Bible education” class that shares universal Bible stories, while stressing...

What would you say if I told you that a select group of children is leaving school every week for special field trips in the middle of...

From the book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3: 1-8 A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven:       A time for...

We are grateful to ParentMap, the premier parenting magazine of the Pacific Northwest, for stepping into the fray and exposing more...

This is the last of our featured speakers’ remarks from our February informational session about LifeWise Academy. Each of them was...

At our informational session this past February, we gathered concerned parents and Clergy members together to share our concerns about...