The strict Christian organization has come under media scrutiny several times, including much criticism of Skjægård's pastor Glenn Rasmussen.
Educational authorities have clashed with the school, which turned out to feature classes in speaking in tongues beginning with second graders. Skjærgård's School receives 85 percent of its running costs from the state but has been under fire from a variety of authorities that find it hard to determine whether they are dealing with a congregation or a school.
Newspaper Agderposten has reported that parents feared the school was controlled by a congregation firmly under the grip of Pastor Rasmussen, and that teachers were not being paid proper wages.
The LIA report found that the Skjærgård's Church's organization chart provided no insight into the group's management, other than deputy leader (Pastor Rasmussen) and executive leader Jesus Christ.
The authority could not find principal or teachers in the school's system and no officers in charge of health, environment or safety. Labor law compliance was lacking.
"We at the Labor Inspection Authority naturally can not go to the spiritual world to contact those with chief responsibility for the health, environmental and safety work at the school. I am not trying to ridicule the school, but if something were to go wrong at a school like this, the lines of responsibility have to be properly drawn," senior inspector Gunn-Elise Lyngtveit Ramlet at the LIA told VG.
Employees were expected to give 10 percent of their wages to the group, and until the LIA visit reports Agderposten, they were also bound to speak well of the pastor, who was subordinate to no one but Jesus Christ.
