Campaign email: oliviaangoliaforboe@yahoo.com
Website: https://eni2022.org/olivia-angolia/
Age: 31
Employment: I manage a local small business, and I’ve also been a health practitioner for 10 years.
Education: I completed half of my associate degree from Frederick Community College, and then opted for trade school instead.
Why are you running for the school board?
I am running on the Education Not Indoctrination slate with Nancy Allen and Cindy Rose to ensure that all children receive the best quality education possible, focused on the core academic subjects and with no political or ideological bias. Our goals also focus on parental rights, not keeping secrets from parents and ensuring that they have power over their children’s medical decisions and education. I would also like to expand vocational education opportunities and implement mandatory financial literacy classes.
What makes you a good candidate for the board?
I am passionate about ensuring that every child gets an excellent education, that we are creating productive members of society whether they go into the workforce, higher education, etc. As a graduate of the FCPS system and lifelong Frederick resident, I can bring a unique perspective to the board, one similar to the positions of our county’s younger families and their concerns. Being a business manager at a successful Frederick County business, I have experience in administration and management, in addition to being a practitioner in health sciences.
Please name a public leader you admire and explain why.
I admire Rand Paul, because he stands for truth and justice. He is not swayed by political parties or agendas. He believes in small government, personal responsibility, fiscal conservatism, parental rights and school choice.
What is the most important issue facing your school board, and what would you do about it if elected?
School boards have been abdicating their responsibilities and duties to do what’s best for a child’s education. There is too much focus on sexuality, racial division and political activism. I want to remove all of that from the classroom. These are family topics of discussion, not government school discussions. Government has no place teaching its preferred ideologies. Transparency and accountability to parents and taxpayers are equally as important, especially considering our recent DOJ investigation that revealed overuse and abuse of seclusion and restraint. FCPS should be recording all committee meetings and making them easily available to the public to restore public trust through transparency.
How concerned are you about school safety, and what if anything should be done to improve it?
Expanding the SRO program is an option that should be reviewed to strengthen student and staff safety. I would also want to review and strengthen current safety policies and make sure every school is complying. Those practices and protocols should be universal throughout FCPS.
Do you have any concerns about the way history is taught in your district’s schools, and if so, what are they?
We don’t teach history without infusing emotion and racial bias, that’s very concerning. Children graduate without knowing that we are a country founded on Judeo-Christian principles. We teach them to believe America was founded on slavery and white supremacy. That should bother every parent and taxpayer funding those lies.
Do you think there are circumstances when books should be removed from school libraries, and if so, what kind of books should be removed?
Any book with pornographic material should not be on school library shelves, there needs to be a vigorous process to review library books that are already adopted, and any prospective books.
