Issues and My Educational Advocacy

For years I have been going to our school board to advocate for common-sense policies that focus on academics, promote good physical and psychological health, and do not sexualize kids or promote social and political agendas in the classrooms. 

 During the pandemic I went to 3 local school boards arguing against the Covid mandates that forced our kids into remote learning, masking, and social distancing. 

I have argued against teaching gender theory and inaccurate aspects of comprehensive sexual education to our kids.

I opposed the racially-divisive school board resolution filled with DEI, Critical Race Theory, and Social Justice statements passed by the RUSD School Board and my opponent.

More recently I have argued for:

  • Parental notification

  • Removing sexually-graphic books from school libraries

  • Limiting the display of flags in the classroom to the American and California flags

  • Protecting girls sports and changing spaces from biological boys

Parental Notification

My proposals for Raising the Standards in Redlands Unified Schools

Our District must proceed with the current RUSD Board goals of:

Reading Proficiency by 3rd Grade (students must be reading at expected 3rd grade level before they advance to 4th Grade)

Middle School Math Intervention (challenging and helping students reach grade-level math proficiency so they can progress to higher level math). At the elementary school level we must do a better job of insuring that all students are proficient arithmetic and can quickly perform basic computations by memory.

Additionally I would propose:

That we also add Middle School Science Intervention because Science CAST score are even lower than our Math CAASPP scores.

That we End Social Promotion. Students must truly pass the required course work to receive a diploma. And we must not limit the teacher’s ability to fail a student who has not truly earned a passing grade.

That we Minimize Grade Inflation. This gives students and their parents the false impression that they are college-ready upon graduation, when in fact, they may not be so. Too many students are having to take remedial classes in college.

Additional proposals:

We must seriously improve classroom discipline and student respect for teachers and administrators, which will require tougher disciplinary action for misbehaving students.

Expand Dual Language Immersion to additional elementary schools

Provide more importunities for high schoolers to purse Career and Technical Education and internships