Joetta MacMiller
Non-Partisan | North Carolina
Candidate Profile*
Conservative (Conditional)
*Additional information appears below for educational purposes; however, only data received prior to the candidate deadline was considered during Panel Evaluation.
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Joetta MacMiller
Party
Non-Partisan
Election Year
2022
Election
Primary
Race
Durham Public Schools Board of Education, District B
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
Mather High School, Chicago, IL, Diploma, 1975
WORK & MILITARY
Candidate did not provide
AFFILIATIONS
Triangle Republican Women, President, Triangle Insurance Professionals
Member, Durham County GOP, Executive Board
Liberty First Grassroots, Volunteer
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
None
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
None
Race
ENDORSEMENTS*
*These endorsements were received after the deadline and were not considered in the Panel Evaluations and are for additional educational purposes only.
CONSERVATIVE (3)
*Durham County Republican Party
*Education First Alliance NC
*Stand For Health Freedom
OTHER (2)
Better Board Better Schools
North Carolina Grassroots Government PAC
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Durham County GOP
SELECTED FINANCIAL SOURCE DOCUMENTS
- Statement of Organization - 2/18/2022
- Disclosure Report - period of 1/1/2022-4/30/2022 (filed 2/18/2022)
- Please note: The following information was received by iVoterGuide after Panel Evaluations occurred and is for additional educational purposes only.
- Disclosure Report - period of 1/1/2022-4/30/2022 (filed 5/9/2022)
- $600.00 contribution from Durham County Republican Party
- $100.00 contribution from Triangle Republican Women
- $600.00 contribution from Durham County Republican Party
- Disclosure Report - period of 1/1/2022-4/30/2022 (filed 5/9/2022)
OTHER INFORMATION
Party Primary Election Voting History for Joetta Louise MacMiller during time of resident in district and/or at current address:
- 2021 Party Primary: Republican
- 2020 Party Primary: Republican
- Voted in three Republican Primaries 2008 - 2018
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Strongly Agree
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Agree
ECONOMY
School districts should be able to use taxpayer money for lobbying the state legislature.
Neutral
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
I feel that we need to keep the government out of our schools. They can take their indoctrination elsewhere
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Strongly Agree
We do have a right to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion.
School districts should not discriminate against individuals, organizations or small businesses because of their belief that marriage is only a union of one man and one woman.
Strongly Agree
Students should not be allowed to pray in school.
Strongly Disagree
HEALTHCARE
Under what circumstances (if any) should a government, school, or employer be allowed to require vaccinations?
I think under NO circumstances should any of them be allowed to require vaccinations.
EDUCATION
When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?
Parents are an integral part of their child's education. They should not be restricted at all. The media has reported about parents yelling and threatening the school boards, but it is only because they are upset with the schools thinking that they know what is better for our children than parents. It is passion that these parents have and I don't blame them. I have been kept out of school board meetings as well.
Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): Mathematics, Information Technology, Science, Political Activism, Personal Finances, Gender Identity, Physical Fitness, American History, Critical Race Theory, Language Arts, Art & Music, Vocational Learning, Sexuality, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning
Mathematics, American History, Science, Language Arts, Physical Fitness IT, Personal Finances, Art & Music, Vocational Learning and Foreign Language. The others have no business being taught or indoctrinated into our schools.
American civics education should emphasize our nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.
Strongly Agree
Before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE) or Social Emotional Learning (SEL), they must opt-in with written parental permission.
Strongly Agree
I believe that if this is to be forced on our kids in school, that they parents must give permission. But....in requesting this permission, the school should provide the full ciriculum so the parents understand exactly what the class entails so they can make an educated decision. Unfortunately, many parents are unaware of what CSE and SEL consist of.
The loss of local control in education is too high a price to pay in exchange for federal dollars.
Strongly Agree
I support the teaching of curricula (such as the 1619 Project, No Place for Hate, Second Step, etc.) that emphasizes slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.
Strongly Disagree
I disagree because the 1619 Project is not factual. We need to focus on core classes instead of trying to incorporate other agendas. Our schools are failing our children.
Parents are the ultimate authority in their child’s education and should be able to freely pursue whatever educational options they deem best for their child.
Strongly Agree
What is the function of the local school board?
They are there in order to make the schools a safe place for our children to come and learn and are there to act in the best interest of our children. They do not have the final say and control over our kids like they think they do.
Do you support the National School Board Association's characterization of parents who speak out at school board meetings as "domestic terrorists"?
No
Absolutely not, but then I am one of those parents that they have labeled as a 'domestic terrorist'. If standing up for my grandchildren makes me a domestic terrorist, then so be it.
Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?
The parents along with the schools
Who has the ultimate right to control the education of children in public schools? (a) parents (b) teachers (c)school boards.
Parents have the ultimate control.
VALUES
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I am a Christian and am frightened with what is happening in our country. We seem to have become a country of lawlessness, lack of values, morals, integrity and ethics. We have become a country that is wanting to defend and support everything bad and evil and not what is right. How have we become such a divided country where people are no longer allowed to voice their opinion or even have a different opinion?
I support allowing public high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.
Strongly Disagree
Boys do NOT belong in girls sports. I don't care if they identify as a girl. Just because they believe in their own disillusioned mind that they are a girl, does not mean that we have to pretend and play that game with them. God chooses our sex before we are born and we do not have the right to change it. God does not make mistakes.
Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
I believe it is the parents responsibility to teach it to their children when they feel it is the appropriate time.
If you support the teaching of Sex Ed, please answer the following question: Sexual education should include these topics (list all that apply and add your own, if needed) -- Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; sexual orientation and gender identity; human anatomy/the reproductive system; abortion methods and side effects; stages of pregnancy and fetal development; sex acts and pleasures of sex
If they have to teach it, I believe they should only teach abstinence, contraceptive methods (since you know kids are not going to always listen) human anatomy/reproductive system
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality that is necessary for our system of limited government.
Strongly Agree
No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.
Strongly Agree
No school official should be involved in the sexual transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.
Strongly Agree
Strongly, strongly, strongly agree!!!!
EQUALITY
I support the teaching that an individual, solely by virtue of his or her race, is inherently racist, whether consciously or unconsciously.
Strongly Disagree
ABOUT YOU
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized in either civil or criminal court for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.
Absolutely not!
A candidate's personal moral values should not be relevant when considering a candidacy for elective office.
Strongly Disagree
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Very Conservative
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
I don't have any, sorry.
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
Please know that I am a Christian, constitution loving, Bible believing conservative. I will support the people who vote for me and I will not compromise my integrity and values. Our children are our future and I am running to be their voice.
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
Absolutely none!!!!
I support mask mandates.
Strongly Disagree
I do not support the mandates at all. But...I do feel that if a person feels more comfortable wearing one, let them. But, do not force the masks on everyone because of their own fears.
