Heritage Academy: Skousen's Scandalous String of Schools

Skousen's Scandalous Schools

Americans United Files Suit To Stop A String Of Taxpayer - Funded Arizona Charters From Preaching Religion
October 2016 Featured By Rob Boston
Students attending Heritage Academy, a string of charter schools in three Arizona cities, are learning some unusual things. Read entire article >> here
In an American Government class and other courses, students are taught that non-believers are mentally unfit, the Constitution was inspired by the Bible and evolution is an unsound theory.
The American Government course looks to be drenched in religion. It’s based on 28 principles that supposedly are required for sound government. Many of them are religious in nature.
Such concepts would raise few eyebrows in a private, sectarian school. But Heritage Academy, which has campuses in Mesa, Queen Creek and Laveen, isn’t private. It’s a charter school, an arm of the public education system that is funded by taxpayer dollars.

Public schools can’t push religion like this, and Americans United intends to put a stop to it. The organization filed a federal lawsuit Sept. 7 that seeks to end the religious indoctrination going on at Heritage Academy.
The case, Doe v. Heritage Academy, Inc., is now under way and could have national implications as charters continue to spread. 
Asserts the lawsuit, “By teaching religious beliefs in a public charter school, which is subject to the U.S. Constitution just like all other public schools, Heritage Academy has violated the First Amendment.”
The suit also points out that Heritage required students to actively spread its unusual views.
“In a transparent attempt to proselytize the school’s religious views, Heritage Academy students are further taught that they are duty-bound to implement and instruct others about these religious and religiously based principles in order to restore the United States to ‘freedom, prosperity, and peace,’” reads the legal complaint.
The lawsuit is being litigated by Americans United Legal Director Richard B. Katskee and AU Madison Fellow Carmen Green. Joining them are John Nadolenco and Kristin Silverman of Mayer Brown LLP, a national law firm, and Roopali Desai and D. Andy Gaona of Coppersmith Brockelman PLC in Phoenix.