Campaign email: lexcapes@yahoo.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/670410577410340
Age: 40
Employment: DNREC, MS4, Environmental scientist
Education: Master of Science, NCSU
Why are you running for the school board?
I am running as a parent and for other parents who feel as though their voices are not being heard and to make sure OUR CHILDREN ARE BEING PUT FIRST.
What makes you a good candidate for the board?
What makes me a good candidate is I am a MOM who will stand up for her child and what she believes in. There are many parents so afraid to speak up, so I will be their voice.
Please name a public leader you admire and explain why.
I admire ALL of the parents who are standing up for their children and not backing down. I admire the teachers who teach a child how to think and not what to think. We as a society have lost the ability to think for ourselves because many were never taught critical thinking skills.
What is the most important issue facing your school board, and what would you do about it if elected?
Two words, Parental Rights.
A parent should be the voice advocating for their child, not a teachers union. Politics and indoctrination of any kind need to be removed from the classroom. Our children are too far behind and schools should be teaching academics, not broadcasting their political affiliations to their students. The No. 1 question I get asked by parents is my stance on CRT (Critical Race Theory) being taught within the classroom. My response is NO I do not believe, along with the majority of parents, that CRT does not belong in our schools.
How concerned are you about school safety, and what if anything should be done to improve it?
School safety is a major issue. We need to be proactive instead of reactive. Parents, police and school officials need to sit down and work out issues that are noticed at different schools. I am also NOT for police reform that wants to allocate the money given to SROs into “other areas.” We need more officers within our schools, not less.
Do you have any concerns about the way history is taught in your district’s schools, and if so, what are they?
My concern is that not all history is being taught and major gaps are either being left out or rewritten. Parents also want access to their children’s curriculum and want to know why everything is so secretive. Bottom line is they want to know what their children are learning in school and how to find that information without going down a rabbit hole that leads nowhere.
Do you think there are circumstances when books should be removed from school libraries, and if so, what kind of books should be removed?
Yes, there are oversexualized books that do not belong in our schools. For example “Gender Queer” is an inappropriate book that illustrates sexual acts and is highly inappropriate for minors. Parents should be made aware of what books are entering their children’s libraries instead of them being kept in the dark of what books their children has access to.
