Back on August 28th The Repository reported that the Freedom from Religion Foundation asked Lake Local Schools to drop a reference to valuing God from its values statement.
The SCPR started a series on surveying Stark County schools value statements to determine whether or not Lake was indicative of what Stark County schools were doing with their value statements.
Although The Report did not get through all 17 districts, it is apparent that Lake was the exception and not the rule in including God in its mission statement. Here is a link to the Stark County Education Report (as sister blog to the SCPR) so readers can see the results of the survey which covered schools alphabetically through and including Minerva schools.
It was beginning to look as if the Lake schools was going to buck the Freedom from Religion Foundation and stand up and fight for God.
Sorry to say, The Repository had a story in yesterday's online edition reporting that Lake was changing its values to take God out.
"What is this world coming to," must be the thought going through the mind of God this 15th day "in the year of our Lord" 2009!
Likewise, Northwest superintendent William Stetler must be shaking his head in disbelief.
Stetler? Why?
Well, Stetler was Lake superintendent from 1996 through 2007. And one of his major contributions to the Lake system (in the opinion of the SCPR - Lake is The Report home since 1975 and three Olson children graduated from Lake) is a restoration of God into the Lake Schools.
In a previous blog, the SCPR likened Stetler to Johnny Appleseed as a spreader of not "appleseeds," but God into the Lake, if not the Stark County school system. Here is the link to the previous blog.
Defending God does has its limits.
Here is Mary Ann Kannam's (Rep reporter) account of the travail at Lake:
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