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2021 School Board Survey
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A CONSISTENT ETHIC
OF LIFE AND THE COMMON GOOD IN PUBLIC
EDUCATION
A Consistent Ethic of
Life and
The Common Good require respectful and
inclusive community collaboration in the provision of moral
public education, using the broad application of principles
valuing the sacredness of human life.
Threats to life include first abortion, fetal plundering and euthanasia,
but also
moral degradation, persistent poverty,
unjust war, capital punishment, the use of nuclear arms,
violence, racism,
trafficking and exploitation. Threats to The Common
Good include governmental despotism, illicit acquiescence to special
interests (e.g. the abortion lobby) and coercion (e.g.
WSSDA)
that promote moral degradation and violate the principle of
subsidiarity. As a
school board member, will you work to ensure that public
education is based on a Consistent Ethic of Life and contributes to The
Common Good?
SEX EDUCATION
In 2020, the Washington State Legislature passed
SB 5395 (see
also here), which requires all public school districts to teach comprehensive
sex education, using
programs approved by the State. Many of these programs have
objectionable content, such as sexualizing children, teaching
children to consent to sex, normalizing anal and
oral sex, promoting homosexual and bisexual behavior,
promoting sexual pleasure, promoting solo and/or mutual
masturbation, promoting condom use in inappropriate ways, promoting early
sexual autonomy, failing to establish abstinence as
the expected standard, promoting transgender ideology, promoting contraception and
abortion to children, promoting peer-to-peer sex ed or sexual rights advocacy, undermining traditional values and beliefs, undermining
parents or parental rights and referring children to harmful resources (see comprehensivesexualityeducation.org).
See here for harm analyses of many of the Washington State approved programs,
including FLASH. See
school
district sex ed programs here.
OSPI main sex ed webpage here.
Will you as a
school board member work to promote life-respecting sex
education?
SCHOOL CLINICS
Washington State continues
to facilitate the expansion of school based clinics, most recently
in 2021 legislation that established a State office for
that purpose (HB
1225). A
2010 incident
that received widespread news coverage involved a Seattle
area in-school clinic that set up an abortion for a 15-year-old high school
student with neither her parents’ knowledge nor consent. What
is your position on schools dispensing
birth control drugs or devices, giving abortion counseling, or providing referrals to off-site
abortion facilities?
_____ Support
_____ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
SCHOOL CHOICE
National
polls on support for school choice consistently runs high,
currently at about 70% (Amer
Fed for Children). The Supreme Court in
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
(2002), held that Ohio's school voucher law did not violate the First
Amendment's establishment clause. It states, "the Ohio program is entirely
neutral with respect to religion. It provides benefits directly to a wide
spectrum of individuals, defined only by financial need and residence in a
particular school district. It permits such individuals to exercise genuine
choice among options public and private, secular and religious. The program is
therefore a program of true private choice" and "the program does not offend the
Establishment Clause." Legislation has been introduced in the
past (HB
2933 by Vicki Kraft in 2020) to allow
scholarship tax credits for lower-income families to send their children to
an approved private school of their choice. The Jan 2020 SCOTUS case Espinoza
v. Montana Department of Revenue indicates the fragility of
Washington State's Blaine Amendment. What is your position on school
vouchers, tax credits or other methods of increasing school choice in Washington State?
_____ Support
_____ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
COVID 19 POLICY
What is the way forward for schools
during the Covid 19 pandemic?
_____ Continue with Current Policies Restricting On Site
Learning
_____ Open Schools More Fully
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
SOCIAL EQUITY
America has traditionally promoted equal opportunity, whereas equity
policies promote equal outcomes.
The 1970's developed theory called
Social Equity
isn't so much about a charitable welfare tool, one that helps groups
of people with targeted characteristics, such as persistent poverty,
low educational achievement and poor health to improve their
circumstances. Welfare generally confers equity in some form,
often financial. Rather, social equity demands reparations for
claimed past injustices, be it the slave history of Black Americans or some
other supposedly oppressed group, using
equal outcomes as a measure for success. In an educational setting,
this can result in the needs of academically high achieving students
not being served, where "the
achievement gap" is narrowed by the removal of advanced
educational opportunities or "tracks." Social equity uses Marxist inspired
Critical Race Theory as a
justification (Camas
example), with its promotion of oppressor and oppressed
classes, guilt and jealousy, and invoking social justice arguments to address
supposed systemic racism.
What is your position on social equity?
_____ Support
_____ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
What is your position on
implementing Marxist inspired
Critical Race Theory (CRT) in
school districts?
_____ Support
_____ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
1619 PROJECT
What is your position on teaching
the much criticized
1619 Project on American history? See also
here and
here (Wiki).
_____ Support
_____ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
ABORTION
Even
dedicated
proponents of abortion acknowledge that life begins at conception.
What do you believe? Does a unique human life begins at conception?
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If not, how long after conception does a human life begin?
___3 mths
___6 mths ___9 mths ___1 yr ___18 yrs?
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The 14th Amendment states "nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The Supreme
Court in
Roe v. Wade, 1973, stated
that "if this suggestion of personhood is established, the
appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life
would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment."
The Court regrettably concluded though that "we need not resolve the
difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the
respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are
unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in
the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to
speculate as to the answer." Do
you believe that the right to life of the unborn child is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment?
Is taking the life of a pre-born child
through abortion ever
morally
permissible?
Check all that apply:
_____ No, it's never permissible
_____ Yes, to save mother's life
_____ Yes, in cases of rape or incest
_____ Yes, for physical deformity
_____ Yes, for gender
_____ Yes, for race
_____ Yes, to punish spouse
_____ Yes, it's always permissible
Do you support
parental notification and/or consent before a minor (under 18 years of
age) could have an abortion? A judicial bypass of parents would be allowed
when necessary.
A 2013 poll commissioned by Human Life WA, found Washington
State voters are widely supportive of laws requiring "parental involvement"
in abortion decisions for girls under the age of 18 (62-29% with just under
10% undecided).
Read a summary of the results here. Do you support:
Notification?
Consent?
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
The nation's biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood,
in the 2018-2019 fiscal year received $617
million in tax payer funding and aborted 345,672 babies.
Planned Parenthood is active in Oregon school districts, where
their representatives have been allowed to regularly address students in
both Portland and
Salem.
Opposition has been firm and articulate (segment begins at 12:44).
Should Planned Parenthood be allowed to make
presentations to students or provide literature, birth control chemicals or
devices, or abortion services?
RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA
Recreational marijuana was legalized in Washington State in 2012 by
Initiative 502.
The drug though is still banned federally, and
considered dangerous by many, including
the AMA,
the APA, and
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Citizens
against Marijuana Legalization (CALM) states "The normalization,
expanded use, and increased availability of marijuana in our communities
are detrimental to our youth, to public health, and to the safety of
our society." The Alaska Association of Police Chief
describe some of the negative aspects of legalizing the drug here. For
additional dangers see
here.
For an extensive
report by the National Academy of Sciences (Jan 2017)
see
here.
What is your
position on the legal production, processing and sale of
recreational
marijuana in
Washington State?
_____ Support
_____ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
QUALIFICATIONS
Please state your professional experience, community involvement, education,
family successes and other qualifications for a school board position.
Do you have children of your own?
POLICY POSITIONS
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have in relation to the office you are seeking:
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