FB: Serena Ashcroft (https://www.facebook.com/SerenaforMckinney)

I am running for McKinney ISD Board to bring our conservative values back to the school district. First and foremost, we must get a better handle on the inappropriate materials in our schools and ensure that our students are protected from inappropriate imagery and indoctrination in our classrooms. Secondly, we simply must ensure that parents have the final say over their children's education. Texas should be leading the way in ensuring parental control over education and we can start right here in McKinney ISD.

I feel that our school board has not worked hard enough to put parents back at the top of our governmental structure here in McKinney ISD. Parents should be the ones to whom our district trustees are accountable, and right now, our school board acts like it is untouchable. I will fight to put parents back at the head of the table when I am elected.

Secondly, I do not believe that our school board has done enough to be accountable to taxpayers in our district. McKinney ISD has a trust problem with its stakeholders and that has to change. Just like how our school district needs to be more responsive to the needs of families enrolled in the district, so should the district work to be more transparent and accountable to the taxpayers who fund the operations of McKinney ISD.

I am a strong proponent of school choice. As a business owner and educator myself, I understand just how important access to quality education is for driving our workforce and economy into the future. There may be times when a family feels that their child will get a better education or an education tailored more toward their needs outside of the public school system. Instead of hindering those decisions, we should be supporting families to make those decisions and should make it easier for parents to have the final say over their children's education.

Without hesitation, parents should have the final authority over their child's education and wellbeing. They know how to better run their families than any elected politician or unelected bureaucrat ever could understand.

I completely disagree with this statement. America is not a racist country and is, in fact, the land of opportunity. We must fight hard to keep this kind of toxic mind-warping indoctrination out of our public schools.

No, these should not be a part of our public education curriculum. Parents should have the final say over their children's education, and that includes over issues like the ones listed here as well.

We have got to place a greater focus on getting back to the basics in our classrooms and ensuring academic success. Right now, public education systems love to push woke ideology on the students in their classrooms, but that does nothing by flame egos and set students up for failure. Wokeness does not set students up for success in the workforce, the military, or college after graduation. All it does is erode the moral fabric of our nation. We have to ensure that we get woke ideology out of our classrooms and get the focus back to issues like teaching literacy, math, and English skills, and the traits that will set students up for success years after they graduate from a public high school.

We have to ensure that our students are all safe on campus, regardless of whether that upsets woke activists who want males in female bathrooms and locker rooms. This means that we must reject woke ideology and ensure that we retain separate facilities for males and females on public school campuses. This includes keeping transgender men out of our girls' bathrooms and locker rooms.

First, we have to make sure that we keep sexual harassment and violence out of our school systems, which means that there is certainly an application for Title IX. However, I do foresee issues arising with Title IX if we allow wokeness to continue on our public school campuses. It is not hard to see how we could see more and more Title IX violations on our campuses if we allow men to use women's bathrooms. It's wrong and it shouldn't be happening. If we allow this kind of inappropriate behavior to continue in our schools, then you better believe that we will see Title IX become an even bigger issue for our school district.

Warren Norred, former SREC Member
Robert West, author of "The Five Star Plan"
Melanie Graft, Granbury ISD Trustee