Another great investigative piece by Respect Public Schools highlighting LifeWise Academy losing local programs — despite the national RTRI program continually claiming to have lost zero programs to date — to more affordable School Ministries Ohio which also offers more local control.
Charging a “per student” fee to LifeWise Corporate for program support, it is worth noting that that fee is charged to local programs if a student only attends ONE RTRI class per school year. This fee structure is disproportionately fiscally disadvantageous to local RTRI programs’ budgets while being highly profitable to LifeWise Corporate.
They are invasive but usually only where the local communities are more than willing to be invaded, if that makes sense
Another great investigative piece by Respect Public Schools highlighting LifeWise Academy losing local programs — despite the national RTRI program continually claiming to have lost zero programs to date — to more affordable School Ministries Ohio which also offers more local control.
Charging a “per student” fee to LifeWise Corporate for program support, it is worth noting that that fee is charged to local programs if a student only attends ONE RTRI class per school year. This fee structure is disproportionately fiscally disadvantageous to local RTRI programs’ budgets while being highly profitable to LifeWise Corporate.
Worth noting that School Ministries Ohio was against the law that mandated schools to offer RTRI in 2024 (before leadership change).
They weren’t against it. They just kept their mouths shut. Big difference.
School Ministries Ohio has pushed for classes on school property during the school day. I initially thought they might be a different organization than Lifewise but I think they might be worse. https://respectpublicschools.substack.com/p/alliance-for-defending-freedom-wants
Every call to school ministries Ohio has been met with hang ups.