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If you had to summarize why I ran in one little soundbite, it would be restoring parent role and voice in education, whatever we can do to make parents feel respected, heard and put them back in partnership with our teachers who also need to be respected and heard, I think it will be good for the district.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We have the humility to learn from the past, whether that's how certain things were done or to constantly evolve and reconsider what we can do better, i think that's going to be the key to our success.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
What I'm seeing is, frankly, a return to basics, a return to academic growth and achievement as the benchmarks, and frankly, I think we're trying to – and this is as a board as well – get rid of some of the other distractions which aren’t core academic pursuits.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our mission at Douglas County is to set the educational foundation that allows each student to achieve his or her individual potential, that was really the focus, just to reaffirm to say anything we do under equity falls under our larger mission and vision as a district, and that's really centered around individual success.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
So what we intend to do is keep the calm and keep the good inclusion, belonging, kindness, respect, but anything that creeps over into critical race theory, division, intersectionality, some voices being more valid based on the speaker and not on the merit or the virtue of the argument, we're going to separate the wheat from the chaff, keep the good and we're going to get rid of the bad.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We've been able to find common ground on the board, and that's what we've been trying to emphasize.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I don't think there's a lot of upset with how it's being implemented right now.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Equity is a squishy word, and that's part of the problem, if you sit 10 people down that are stakeholders in the county, give them a piece of paper and ask them to find equity, you're going to come up with 15 different answers.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've never run for elective office, I didn't want to run for elective office, i felt a calling because I think we need to get these rising generations of kids back on track, understanding that there absolutely is privilege in America and it’s the privilege to be an American.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This board, whether they intend to or not, is putting in incredibly divisive policies, they are putting parents against parents, parents against teachers.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
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