The After School Satan Club

Civics 101

NHPR

Society & Culture, Government, History

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The tale of what happens when The Satanic Temple comes to Hellertown, PA. From dear teacher friend Jason Stern comes this lesson in First Amendment rights. It all started when the Saucon Valley School District got word that the After School Satan Club was coming to town. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This summer, we got an email from an old teacher pal of ours.
0:06.6	I was like, I should email those guys, they might find this interesting.
0:09.9	This is Jason Stern.
0:11.4	He's a social studies teacher in Hillertown, Pennsylvania.
0:14.6	Jason Stern is a friend of the show, and we got to speak to his brilliant students back
0:18.5	in 2021.
0:19.5	Yeah, that's right.
0:20.5	That was basically a lifetime ago.
0:23.2	Anyway, Jason sends us this email with the subject line.
0:28.2	We find this interesting dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.
0:33.2	A five dot ellipses.
0:35.2	And I was like, okay, what you got for us, Stern?
0:39.1	And what he got for us was this.
0:42.0	Just sitting home on, I believe it was on just a school night.
0:51.6	And uh, checked my email and we got an email from our superintendent and it was sent
0:58.1	out because I'm a teacher and a parent in the district.
1:03.0	So we sent out to all the community members and it said that just wanted to make everybody
1:09.5	aware that the group called the After School Satan Club will be holding meetings at our
1:17.4	school district on our school district campus after school.
1:22.0	Satan had come to town.
1:32.2	But that is not the reason that Jason was emailing us, though to be fair, it probably would
1:37.4	have been enough to peak my attention.
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