@monicabwilbur
@highergroundut

To prioritize sound foundational academics in the classrooms and to protect children from socioeconomic and cultural exploitation.

The board is advancing corrupt and exploitative global and national agendas, outsourcing decisions on our children to people who are 6 degrees removed from the classroom and are subverting the values of the families that the system should serve.

I will address this by reiterating all the issues I have spoken to at the board for the past 2.5 years, and request that the board reevaluate its Strategic Plan, sunset partnerships & programs aligned to transformational social change, and audit its internal operations with the intention of streamlining its operations and eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy.

The board is also taking over the roles that have traditionally belonged to the family, such as providing for students' physical, social, mental, and medical needs. I would vote against any programs that unconstitutionally expand the role of the state into the home, and advocate for the repeal of extant legislation that increases the influence of the state in the home.

I support true free-market school choice that is not government funded. We are seeing government-funded school choice in Utah get expanded, and with it, requirements on service providers and scholarship recipients who take it to comply with government regulations. I personally have received calls from private school owners who are worried about the viability of their schools' religious missions if they take the money, as they will have to comply with Federal anti-discrimination law, which forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The parents are always the preeminent authority and primary influence in their own children's lives. Their role is all-encompassing, which includes being responsible for a child's physical, emotional, mental, medical, spiritual, and intellectual wellbeing.

I do not agree with this statement as it is untrue and deliberately divisive. The statement "America is inherently racist" is inherently ignorant of the trajectory of America's history in striving to achieve the foundational principles of the Enlightenment in bringing about equality under the law premised on the self-evident truths and unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as endowed to us by our Creator.

CSE, DEI, and SEL should never be a component of the curriculum. Nor should they be embedded in instructional methods, professional development, assessments, or other pedagogical approaches. All these ideologically charged programs and practices are aligned to a statist value system which is designed to flip children's loyalties away from their families, their identities as Americans, their religious beliefs and moral standards, and toward the government instead.

First, I would vote to support efforts to free Utah from Federal funding and grants so that we can regain control over our local schools. Second, I'd vote against any policies aligned to SEL, DEI, and CSE, as these ideologies directly compete with foundational academics and harm children. Third, I would request that the state board sever ties with organizations pushing these controversial and counterproductive ideologies. Fourth, I would advocate for an audit of our teacher training programs. Fifth, I'd propose the board to adopt a new strategic plan aligned to academic achievement and the restoration of the school system's proper role.

I've already advocated for safety of girls in private spaces by working with a parent involved in a Title IX complaint against a local school district. I would further advocate for bright line laws at the legislative level that provide for and protect single-sex spaces with no exceptions.

The Biden Administration's new Title IX interpretation is definitely jeopardizing the safety of our daughters and negatively impacting the ability of our sons to play in contact sports, like wrestling, in which they are directly competing against girls.

My organization, Higher Ground, exposed how Title IX's new expanded definition of "sex-based discrimination" is being weaponized against distinctions and protections based on sex, and used to institutionalize the celebration of radical queer theory in schools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JtOb74_sVY&list=PL_d8euxLs7SojL6c_LYFh6xuTra6iiikC

Congressman Burgess Owens, Utah
Mayor Bill Hoster, Leeds, Utah
Mayor Neil Critchlow, Grantsville, Utah
Councilwoman Michelle Tanner, St. George
Granite School District Board Member, Kim Chandler
Utah State Board of Education Member, Natalie Cline