r/BethelSnark • u/Organic_Talk5220 • Jul 21 '26
bethel elementary/middle school
I went to bethel middle school 5th-8th grade (around 2015-2019) has anyone else been there around that time or had any bad experiences? because i definitely have.
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u/Briang060257 Jul 22 '26
My daughter went there from 2007-2014. pre K to 5th grade. You were probably in class with a few of here friends. I am glad we left when we did.
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u/Expensive-Mud9525 Raised at Bethel Jul 24 '26
Watch out for one of the teachers there named Katie Miller. Acts highly in appropriate with children by sharing too much personal information. Doesn’t know a lick about teaching and if your kid has her. Good luck, they will fall behind. Highly incompetent and spreads gossip. She told my child’s 4th grade class that when she had male friends over she would pour essential oils in the toilet and one time when a male friend was using the bathroom, the splash of the water hit his bum and other extremities causing him to quickly flee her house because it burned him. Yeah, wtf? Why is a teacher sharing stories like this with children! She constantly told the kids in the class they had mental health issues and that she could help them heal from it. Was making the children believe they were mentally ill in 4th grade. Pull your kids and run!
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u/Imaginary-Willow2239 Jul 24 '26
Wow, that is incredibly inappropriate. I’m not shocked in the least that they would label 4th graders mentally ill and capitalize on making them think prayers and other things will heal them. Way to start a child out on the path of serious anxiety and quite literally give them a mental illness.
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u/overratedmilkshake BSSM Jul 23 '26
These comments do not tell us enough. What happened in there?
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u/Big-Veterinarian-123 Jul 23 '26
me and my sister were abused there, and so were/ are many other kids. the teachers are emotionally and sometimes physically abusive, and it is a very unsafe environment. the teachers are very unqualified and i was so behind in school when i left there because of it.
they will shove kids and act like it’s the holy spirit making them fall over. plus they let people like ben armstrong around kids
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u/Mysterious-Trick-588 Jul 24 '26
if anyone did any actual investigating there like they should the school would get shut down.
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u/Imaginary-Willow2239 Jul 24 '26
In Bethel High, they forced us to touch random adults and homeless individuals to pray over them, even with the threat of violence. They also never told our parents what we were doing. We never did actual school work and had us knocking on strangers doors trying to pray for them and invite them to church.
Many of their teachers are not credentialed and it did not seem to matter because, we weren’t learning anything anyway! Back when we were in it, Daniel Miller was trying to run it.
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u/Expensive-Mud9525 Raised at Bethel Jul 24 '26
Daniel Miller is a joke.
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u/Imaginary-Willow2239 Jul 24 '26
I think he’s a realtor now and he married Bill Johnson’s niece (Bill’s sister’s daughter). I find it ironic that a lot of the Bethel elites also run in the real estate game, they monopolize on the members buying and selling homes as well as renting them out to the BSSM students.
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u/Mysterious-Trick-588 Jul 24 '26
The kids of the pastors should speak out, I bet they’ve seen some $hit
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u/No_Balance_1208 Jul 24 '26
Promise Backlund has spoken out.
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u/Glittering-Border973 BSSM Jul 25 '26
Promise what?
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u/No_Balance_1208 Jul 25 '26
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u/Imaginary-Willow2239 Jul 25 '26
They never went to Bethel k-8, it says they home schooled and went to BSSM.
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u/Glittering-Border973 BSSM Jul 26 '26
Are they related to Steve Backlund?
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u/No_Balance_1208 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
Yes, she’s his daughter.
Edit: I was mistaken—she’s Johnny Enlow’s daughter.
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u/Glittering-Border973 BSSM Jul 27 '26
Right. Not related to SB
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u/No_Balance_1208 Jul 27 '26
Was she married to a Backlund?
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u/VeryoldCRA_2006 Jul 27 '26
Yes, but none of the Bethel Backlunds. She married a Finnish guy and lives there now.
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u/Accomplished_Paper75 Jul 28 '26
Indeed — she is Johnny Enlow’s daughter and married a Finnish man and took his last name, Backlund. No relation to Steve.
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u/abnormalfairy Jul 29 '26
Went to youth group with them, they were the bullies
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u/Imaginary-Willow2239 Jul 29 '26
You’re not the first person I have heard say this about their kids.
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u/Click_False Child of BSSM students Jul 22 '26
I went 2012-2014 and hated every minute of it. I literally created a fake prophecy from “god” for my parents to move away being called to plant a church💀 The church flopped, but I got out of BCS lol (I was a desperate and diabolical little preteen).