Levi Smith Sr.
Non-Partisan | North Carolina
Candidate Profile
Conservative (Conditional)
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Levi Smith Sr.
Party
Non-Partisan
Election Year
2022
Election
General
Race
Pitt County Schools Board of Education, District 5
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
Pitt Technical Institute, Winterville, Business Adminstration, 1975
Mount Olive College (Extension), New Bern, Organization Development Bus.Ad., 1996
WORK & MILITARY
Air Force, Airman First Class, 1 Year 10 Months
AFFILIATIONS
Reedy Branch OFWB Church, Chairman of Church Board, Deacon, Adult and Teen Sunday School Teacher and Chairman of the Deacon Board, Winterville Ruritan Club
Past President and Vice President, Winterville Parks and Recreation, Volunteer Baseball Coach for 48 years
DH Conley HS Athletic Booster Club, Past President, WH Robinson Elementary School
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
School Board, 2018
Race
SELECTED FINANCIAL SOURCE DOCUMENTS
Candidate Information Form (3/3/2022)
OTHER INFORMATION
Election Voting History for Levi Cannon Smith Sr during time of resident in district and/or at current address:
- 2022 Party Primary Election: Republican
- 2020 Party Primary Election: Republican
- Voted in four Republican Primary Elections 2016 - 2019
- Voted in one Democratic Primary Elections 2000 - 2014
- Voted in two Primary Elections 1996 - 1998
- Voted in 16 General Elections 1992 - 2020
**Voter history is not considered during panel evaluations.**
Notice of Candidacy (3/3/2022)
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.
Strongly Disagree
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
Fund Pre-K through high school graduation. Parent or Student fund there college education.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Strongly Agree
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?
No circumstances
EDUCATION
When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?
Patents should always be able to speak at School Board Meetings as long as they are respectful and follow the guidelines for addressing the Board. Parents should be heard and their concerns addressed.
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
Teach English, Math, Reading, Writing, Science, American History, Information Technology, Personal Finances, Physical Fitness, Art & Music, Vocational Learning and Foreign Language.
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
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
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 provide vision and goals, set standards for performance, establish policies and work to improve students achievement.
Do you support the National School Board Association's characterization of parents who speak out at school board meetings as "domestic terrorists"?
No
Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?
Parents, teachers and school board.
Who has the ultimate right to control the education of children in public schools? (a) parents (b) teachers (c)school boards.
Parents
VALUES
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I am a Christian, saved by the grace and love of God and his son Jesus who died on the cross at Calvary for my sins and the sins of mankind.
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
Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
Parents only!
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
I don’t support the teaching of sex education at our schools. This should be done by Parents.
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality that is necessary for our system of limited government.
Choose not to answer
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
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.
No
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?
Conservative
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
Did not answer
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
If you want a person on the school board that will stand with our parents, children and grandchildren, who has served our community voluntarily over the years and has great work ethics, then vote Levi Smith.
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
No circumstances!
I support mask mandates.
Strongly Disagree
