Parents are the ultimate authority in their children's lives. Healthy families are a vital structure in society.  I strongly believe that parents have the final say when it comes to their children in areas of medical decisions. As well as participation in any and all school questionanaires and data collection. And of course, what type of curriculum and additional programs the school will be using to teach their children. Parents should have open access to preview curriculum, programs, library books, classroom lectures, guest speakers and materials used in the classroom and in extra curricular activities. Total transparency between school administration, teachers and parents should always be our goal. 

As student performance continues to plummet in America, academics have been put on a back burner to social programming. Our schools need to return to their original intent, to educate our children. We need Reading, Writing, STEM, Civics, American and World History to be the curriculum of our schools. And the text books for these subjects need to be free of CRT, CSE, SEL, and other forms of indoctrination. The time has come to return to basic academic standards that once kept American students at the top of the world's academic performers. 

Every elected official in any public office has a responsibility to be accountable and transparent to the people who put them in office. More and more many public officials, even at the school board level, have lost sight of this basic truth. As a school board member, I will be accountable to the voters of Plattsmouth, I will be diligent to uphold best practices for the students of our district, and never forget that my role is one of service. 

One of the most troubling developements within the entire education system, has been to abandon academics for social engineering. Programs such as Social Emotional Learning, Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology and Comprehensive Sex Education are being pushed by the State Department of Education, I believe, to the detriment of the children of Nebraska. Someone needs to stand in the gap and protect our students from these radical indoctrinations that are sweeping like a wildfire across our state. I will be that firewall.