STATE CANDIDATE
SURVEY
PRINCIPLES
Please choose the answer that most accurately alligns with your own personal beliefs
1. Parents’ Rights: We believe that Parents have the right to determine the curriculum and the cultural and moral values taught to their children in school, and Parents alone should provide the final and unquestioned consent for any and all medical procedures, counseling, or therapy provided to their children by any institution or organization.
2. Human Dignity: We believe that a child's dignity is violated through the presentation of pornography, trans-sexualism, sexism, racism (critical race theory), and attempts to devalue the family in school.
3. Merit: We believe that state education policies should pivot from social justice, or 'equity' programs to more academic courses with higher standards. State standards should promote academic rigor.
4. Merit: We believe that academically gifted courses and advanced placement courses should be based strictly on entrance exam scores and grades.
5. Parental Rights: We believe that children belong to their families, not to the government. Accordingly, legislators should refrain from interfering with parental authority except in cases of abuse.
6. Saving Our Girls: We believe that boys don't belong in the girsl bathroom or playing on girls sports teams.
7. Saving Our Girls: We believe that boys who are arrested by law enforcement for sexually assaulting or raping girls on campus or off should be removed from traditional schooling until formally charged by the DA. Should the DA decline to try a case, the accused should be allowed back to campus. However if the case goes to trial, the accused should remain in alternative schooling until a sentence reached. If found gulity, the accused should be permanently expelled from traditional schooling.
8. School Discipline: We believe in zero tolerance policies for serious offenses (assaults, theft, drugs, rapes) because they are clear guidelines of expectations and consequences that make students accountable. Zero tolerance policies are fast-acting interventions that project the message that major offenses are not tolerated in school under any circumstances
9. Government oversight: We believe that legislators should be focused on investigations, audits, and inspections of the Department of Public instruction as it takes taxpayer funds that contribute to a broken system.
10. Local Control: We believe that North Carolina should refrain from taking money from the Feds (just 10% of education budget) because it comes with strings attached. Education decisions should be made as locally as possible, reflecting the priorities and values of the parents and residents of the local community.
11. School Choice: We believe that parents should have the right to choose where their children are educated and should have the choice to direct their tax dollars to the educational institution of their choice.
PRINCIPLES
Please choose the answer that most accurately alligns with your level of committment to comply with Education First Alliance's 6 point pledge.
1. If elected, will you publicly advocate for a 50% reduction in the size and budget of the Department of Public Instruction, and work towards that goal through oversight and legislation?
2. If elected, will you publicly call for a yearly audit of the Department of Public Instruction, an agency that controls more than half of all state spending?
3. If elected, will you publicly call for an end to the Social-Emotional Learning requirement in all 12 academic subjects? Will you work to influence lawmakers to defund CASEL Social Emotionl Learning - a program which promotes critical race theory and transgender and 'queer' pedagogy?
4. If elected, will you work with legislators to require every school to get parental conscent BEFORE every survey, oral or written, in every class?
5. If elected, will you work with legislators to enact a law, policy, or rule that would prohibit top Department of Public Instruction hiring employees with spouses who are registeed education lobbyists?
6. If elected, will you work with legislators to enact a law or amendment that will raise the age of consent to 16 for recieving mental health treatment and psychiatric drugs?
7. If elected, will you publicly advocate for and work with legislators to enact a law, policy, or rule to require teachers and Department of Public Instruction employees to undergo a bi-yearly criminal background check?
8. If elected, will you publicly hold Supeintendent Catherine Truitt accountable when she proposes contracts, or holds teacher trainings that are based in critical race theory using taxpayer dollars?