Terese Matricardi

Safety and parental rights

1. Safety
I will insist that each school is required to list online any violent disciplinary violations occurring at the school, each week. I will insist that disciplinary hearings increase use of alternative education sites for violent students in the schools. Ensure sufficient armed law-enforcement at every school, and require new drug education courses based on fentanyl facts at middle and high schools.

2. Parental rights
I will require parental notification regarding any consults with counselors, parental notification regarding transgender ideation, ensure social emotional learning assessments never administer evaluations or use data without parental consent, and as cited above, ensure schools list weekly online disciplinary violations occurring. I would also establish personal oversight committees for every curriculum content area, including library inventory.

I absolutely support school choice! I believe we can begin to facilitate school choice within our own county by partnering with more private entities to facilitate more choices for parents, and greater competition, which always results in higher standards and greater excellence. The tyranny of the Marxist teacher’s unions has to be brought back to the public, so that public education truly serves the public and is about education not indoctrination.

Parents are absolutely the ultimate authority in a child’s education and well-being. Furthermore, this is stated in our Virginia code 1- 240.1, stating “a parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent’s child”.

I do not agree with that statement. America in fact has established the greatest freedoms and rights for people of all races, and all minorities. Our founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson and Madison, who owned slaves, fought vigilantly to eliminate the practice.

They should not be part of public education!
Each of these issues are all political issues rather than educational ones.

Furthermore, sex education has been shown to be a failure and that it does not decrease sexual activity, nor does it increase unwanted pregnancies, or STDs. It leads students to believe that they cannot regulate their impulses, rather than helping them to gain self control, and self respect.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are simply the Marxist gods which have replaced our Judeo Christian God in public education. This is simple socialism, and as Churchill state, it results in ignorance, failure, and envy. DEI should be replaced with boards promoting Excellence, Opportunity, and Virtue.

As a school psychologist for 28 years, I can say with absolute certainty that social emotional learning should not be a part of public education. This is another Marxist façade to eliminate parents. Social emotional assessments are being completed on every student in some districts so that parental consent does not have to be obtained. Parents have no idea that the evaluations are taking place, what the results of the evaluations are, or how the data is being used. Furthermore, today’s social emotional learning magnifies maladaptive feelings. The fact is that social emotional learning occurs when children learn to regulate their feelings based upon their beliefs. We need to prioritize beliefs over feelings.

School choice will ultimately allow parents to recognize what produces greater achievement for their children. We can begin by offering more options within our county. For example, we need to offer more differentiation in elementary and middle schools. Today there is a limited dichotomy of choices resulting only in the main stream classroom or special education. Parents now are forced to seek disabilities for their children so that they can access something other than the main stream classroom which is a 100 ring circus disaster. The lack of differentiation is simply a result of political goals rather than academic ones. We need to remember that public education should prioritize education.

I would insist that our county develop specific policy which prohibits biological males from using girls bathrooms or locker rooms. Transgenders can have access to private individual bathrooms if they need something different. Transgenders should not be bullied, but their rights cannot infringe upon the rights of others.

I have personal confirmation from the Attorney General that he will stand with me in developing and protecting this sort of policy.

Title nine is in jeopardy, and women’s rights are being eliminated. As Phyllis Schlafly prophesied, women are simply being erased. Not only are women’s sports not protected, women’s privacy and safety is not protected. Our culture refuses to even define what a woman is.

I am endorsed by our Virginia Attorney General, Jason Miyares, Senator Bryce Reeves, Delegate Nick Freitas, and Board of Supervisor Tom Underwood.