Elizabeth McDuffie
Non-Partisan | North Carolina
Candidate Profile*
Leans Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Elizabeth McDuffie
Party
Non-Partisan
Election Year
2024
Election
General
Race
Wake County Public School System Board of Education, District 8
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
American University, Washington DC, MAT TESOL, 2008
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, BA, 2003
WORK & MILITARY
Professional Education, K-12 ESL Teacher, 19
AFFILIATIONS
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Candidate did not provide
ENDORSEMENTS*
CONSERVATIVE (2)
*Carolina Teachers Alliance
*Wake County Republican Party
OTHER (1)
*NC Asian American Coalition
SELECTED FINANCIAL SOURCE DOCUMENTS
Disclosure Report (from Wake County) - Organizational 2024 - Reporting Period: 07/19/2024 to 07/26/2024
Disclosure Report (from North Carolina Board of Elections) - 2024 Third Quarter- Reporting Period: 07/27/2024 to 10/19/2024
Selected contributions/expenditures:
- $300.00 contribution from Raleigh Republican Club
- $300.00 contribution from Wake County Republican Women's Club
- $1197.50 contribution from Western Wake Republican Club
OTHER INFORMATION
Partisan Primary Election Voting History for Elizabeth Sax McDuffie from North Carolina State Board of Elections during time of residence in the district and/or at current address:
- 2024 Primary - Republican
- 2022 Primary - Republican
- 2018 - 2020 Primaries - did not vote
- Voted in two Democratic Primaries 2012 - 2016
**Election Voting History is not considered during panel evaluations.**
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
What role should the school serve in helping a student with an unwanted or crisis pregnancy?
A school should serve as a warm, caring environment to its students. Challenging situations require tenderness from the faculty, as well as confidentiality. While the school should have no say in how the families of the minor children should handle the situation, the parents of the minor children should be informed.
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Choose not to answer
ECONOMY
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
Our democracy depends on an educated voter base and our economy depends on a skilled workforce. Therefore, the public school's core business needs to ensure that its students are academically educated in reading, writing, and arithmetic. This does require funding.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Teachers should be required to instruct students on mandated curriculum even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Disagree
Moral and religious beliefs are deeply personal. Teachers in opposition to certain components of the curriculum should be protected by the First Amendment.
EDUCATION
Abortion and gender transitioning providers, including Planned Parenthood, should be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Strongly Disagree
Consistent discipline creates a safe and orderly environment, which is essential for student learning.
Strongly Agree
Students need disciplinary boundaries, positive behavior incentives and high expectations in order to learn and feel safe at school. Teachers need to be able to manage their classrooms to maximize learning which requires routines, procedures and rules with the support of an active, caring administration.
Do you believe print and digital material available or presented to students should be easily accessible for public review, including those without children enrolled in school?
Yes
The general public should be able to access school curricula, textbooks, and materials.
Educators should give students a thorough education in America's founding documents and cultivate American patriotism.
Agree
I believe we should also teach more World History and Geography to provide context to U.S. History.
I support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
Disagree
I believe ALL students are capable of excellence and scholastic achievement in a merit based system. We need to meet ALL learners where they are and build them up academically while providing equal opportunity as opposed to artificially creating equal outcomes or "equity". Our job as educators is to help students reach their full potential by capitalizing on strengths and cultivating a sense of personal pride that comes with accomplishment.
I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.
Neutral
If a member of the public flags (challenges) a book as inappropriate and the school board disagrees, should the board impose a moratorium on when the book can be challenged again? If yes, for how long?
All books should be age and developmentally appropriate for students in the public school library. No books should be present that are so graphic or vulgar that they cannot be read aloud in school board meetings.
Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): American History, Art & Music, Civics, Critical Race Theory, Foreign Language, Gender Identity, Information Technology, Language Arts, Mathematics, Personal Finances, Physical Fitness, Political Activism, Science, Sexuality, Social Emotional Learning, Vocational Learning
All of the following should be of equal weight to ensure the education of the whole child: American History, Art & Music, Civics, Foreign Language, Information Technology, Language Arts, Mathematics, Personal Finances, Physical Fitness, Science, and Vocational Learning. I’d also like to add World History and Geography.
The state should fund education by allowing dollars to follow the child instead of the bureaucracy, through a program which allows parents the freedom to choose their child's school – public, private, or homeschool.
Agree
A free market approach would encourage the public schools to become competitive again. If a school is not meeting the needs of a child, or if a child is falling in with the wrong crowd, why shouldn’t the parent(s) be able to find a more suitable school regardless of socioeconomic status? Families with substantial income already have that advantage.
Which should students have: equity of outcomes or equality of opportunities?
Equal opportunity and a system of meritocracy.
Which type of written parental consent should be obtained before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)? (A) Opt-In. (B) Opt-Out. (C) None.
(A) Opt-In
Who should make decisions about whether or not a book is appropriate for children? A) the elected school board members; B) an outsourced community committee
A balance of opinions must be met in a manner consistent with what is age and developmentally appropriate for children.
VALUES
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I am Christian. As for my values, the Founding Fathers expressed it best in the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Children have a right to reach maturity without chemical or surgical castration, which would damage their healthy bodies through surgeries and may cause a life-long dependence on cross-sex hormones.
Strongly Agree
If sexual education is taught in schools, what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
Sexual education has changed in nature over the years and needs complete review in both content and age appropriateness.
Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman essential to the formation and sustaining of a civil and prosperous society.
Neutral
Parents have the fundamental right to raise their child in accordance with their beliefs and values, including the right to make decisions about the child's education and healthcare.
Strongly Agree
Parents should have full and timely access to any and all records, including school and medical records, associated with their minor children.
Strongly Agree
School children have the right to be protected from sexual grooming including drag shows and explicit materials with pictures of sex acts and graphic language.
Strongly Agree
Should schools be giving instruction on how to engage in sexual acts, the pleasures of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or should they instead focus on educating students about the science of reproduction?
Never.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
I believe all Americans are capable of obtaining a form of government issued identification.
EQUALITY
Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.
Strongly Agree
ABOUT YOU
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
No
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
No
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?
Lean Conservative
2ND AMENDMENT
The right to bear arms is fundamental and must be protected.
Agree
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
In the event of a pandemic, school districts can mandate whatever health precautions they deem necessary (including masks and vaccines) to protect students and staff.
Disagree
