Good News Clubs: Psychologically abusing your children in a public elementary school near you!

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9. Some answers, just going off of what I heard from Dawkins et al.

The classes are officially after-school clubs, which the kids are officially not required to attend. That doesn't mean that the people running these clubs don't pretend they're required and try to herd the kids into them, neglecting to tell them they're not part of the official curriculum. Their strategy is to attach themselves remora-like to the public school system, leech their aura of authority, and come across to the kids as if they were just another class.

And they've got an aggressive and well-organized racket. It's nation-wide, and spreading quickly to more cities. Much of the time, they do get stopped from pamphleting the kids, but they continually try to do what they can get away with.

Technically, according to the Supreme Court, since they ruled they have to admit Good News Clubs as after-school clubs, they have to be even-handed, which means we could also have Buddhist or Muslim or atheist after-school clubs. Of course, unlike Good News Clubs, these other clubs would endure harassment and death threats from "good god-loving Muricans", while the school administration and local law-enforcement sit on their asses. Especially in the Bible Belt.

What's even nastier is that these Good News Clubs aggressively push the kids to proselytize to the other kids in a form of Jesus-bullying. If your kids are not in attendence, the Good News Kids (or Children of the Corn) are going to give them crap about it.

Yeah, these clubs are scary.