@HarryJ4Justice

Parental Choice and Excellence in Education are the top two issues. Parents have primary in their child's education as enshrined in Virginia state law and the Fairfax County School Board has adopted policies undermining parental rights, such as withholding a child's gender identity as early as Kindergarten if the child so wishes. Teachers are not psychologists and gender dysphoria is a medical condition and should be treated as such where the parent should be informed. The state bears the burden of demonstrating a compelling interest which it has failed to do in this case.

Excellence in education is the more important issue. In the name of equity, and its intended result of 'equal outcomes,' honors and advanced courses are being removed from offerings. Children are being denied collaborative learning environments to help them reach their full potential, and kids are being dumbed down.

The top issues with the school are its failure to address the pandemic learning loss and provide quality education to our students. During the last school year, our current school board spent less than 3 hours total discussing academics. The immediate focus to address learning loss is to establish private-public partnerships to provide supplemental educational opportunities, remove unnecessary ideological content, and in earlier grades (k-3), and additional teacher to reduce the student to teacher ratio (a practice at the Nysmith School for the Gifted, one of the worlds top schools), and have teachers specialist in the subject they teach, instead of teaching all subjects (where the students change classes, another Nysmith practice).

I passionately support school choice, as do minority communities.

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No. People are racist, not America. CRT is the legitimization of racism and its pedagogy should not be implemented in school.s

Comprehensive Sex Education is the subversion of sexuality education whose original purpose was to prevent the spread of STDs and teenage pregnancy. DEI has turned into harmful reverse discrimination and SEL has failed to demonstrate a positive return on investment. These concepts should not be a part of an education curriculum nor a part of supplemental materials. None of these concepts would survive if they were only offered as discusson material in afterschool clubs. This material is in the domain that is best left to parents.

I would address this by collecting data on student growth, as well as proficiency, in student classrooms. This practice would enable the identification of high-performing teachers as well as low-performing ones.

These spaces would remain safe for girls by only allowing children to use bathrooms and locker rooms to their assigned gender at birth. True gender dysphoria, which is less than 1% of the population, which has a genuine diagnosis and has ADA protections (per Williams v Kinkaid), would be exempt. Should there be a repeal of Williams v Kinkaid, I would support a third bathroom option for such children.

Yes. Title IX is in jeopardy in public education. The National Federation of High School Sports delegates the issue of biological males competing in women's sports to state bodies, which, in turn, rely on the judgment of individual school principals to make such allowances. In these cases, males are not tested for testosterone levels, or gender dysphoria, nor are they required to be at a certain stage of transition. Title IX was intended to protect girls and women and we should not allow biological males into this pace.

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