Steven P. Rader

Strongly Agree

Beaufort County has an excellent Crisis Pregnancy Center. A student with an unwanted or crisis pregnancy should be referred there.

It means that while schools should not dictate a particular religion, they should not prohibit religious activity. I support opportunities for prayer at appropriate times in school activities.

State government should continue its responsibility for K-12 education funding with counties providing facilities and supplements to state funding. Competition in any field incentivizes excellence, so I support Opportunity Scholarships and Charter Schools. I support salary increases for teachers as proposed in the current NC House version of the state budget. I support funding state universities and community colleges, but with in-state tuition limited to students who are US citizens.

Agree

Many student debtors struggle but make good on their obligations. It is unfair to them to let others off the hook.

Strongly Agree

We have immigration laws that provide a correct way to come to America. My wife is an example, coming to America from Europe the right way. Our Rule of Law is threatened by allowing just anyone who wants to cross the border stay in our country. Illegal aliens are a huge financial burden on our schools that has resulted from a failure by the previous administration to enforce our national immigration laws. Our school system should cooperate with ICE in every way possible.

Strongly Disagree

The recent landmark US Supreme Court case of Mahmood v. Taylor has greatly reinforced parental rights to opt their children out of LGBTQ and transgender related instruction and activities. Its principles would almost certainly also cover abortion. It would be very inappropriate to allow Planned Parenthood or similar organizations into the schools.

Strongly Agree

Discipline is a serious problem in schools. This impacts the safety of both students and staff, and also the learning environment for other students. I support a stronger hand for principals to deal with bad behavior. In appropriate cases, if the behavior is severe, students should be referred to the juvenile justice system. The word needs to get out to students prone to bad behavior that it will not be tolerated in the schools.

Strongly Agree

Beaufort County Schools have not had an approved Social Studies (history) curriculum for eight years, forcing teachers to put together their own curriculum. I have placed that issue on the School Board agenda so we can move forward to adopt a new curriculum. That curriculum should include our founding documents and founding fathers and be based on Eastern North Carolina values, not the "woke" agenda. NC statutes allow adoption of a curriculum outside those approved by DPI, if necessary.

Agree

I strongly support the concept as I am a firm believer in local control of local schools. However in NC, where funding would go at the state level may be a sticking point. If the legislature had control of it, that should be fine, but NC DPI is as liberal if not more liberal than the US Department of Education has been. Putting more funding under control of DPI would not be a positive move. A lot of the problem at DPI is the state school board being very liberal appointees of the governor.

First of all, any sex education should only we offered with parental consent. Of the listed topics, I would NOT support "pleasures of sex and sex act" or , "sexual orientation and gender identity" The other topics I could support with parental consent. The recent US Supreme Court case of Mahmood v. Taylor would make teaching gender identity and sexual orientation particularly problematic.

1. American History 2. Language Arts. 3. Mathematics, 4. Science, 5.Civics, 6. Information Technology, 7.Personal Finances, 8. Art and Music, 9. Foreign language, 10. Physcial Fitness, 11. Vocational Learning. The others have no place in the schools. Our school board has adopted policies prohibiting Gender Identity and Critical Race Theory in our curriculum using language I wrote to do so.

Strongly Agree

The schools are a key place where our culture and societal norms are transmitted to the next generation. Academic achievement builds the skills necessary for students to thrive in American society. Students should be encouraged to excel, not merely get by. Building character is fundamental to building a strong and resilient society in our country.

Agree

Competition keeps everyone trying to improve their product, and education is no exception. Competition from charter, religious, and private schools pushes public education to up its game to be better than the competition.

Agree

Places that have adopted these policies have not had school shootings since doing so. School safety is a key issue, and we should take every step we can to assure it. We have make good strides in school safety in Beaufort County since we got our Sheriffs Office back in the schools as School Resource Officers.

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I have been a registered Republican since I moved to Beaufort County in 1978, and prior to that was a registered Republican in Mecklenburg County. I regularly vote in primaries, runoffs, and general elections. I have also held many positions in the Republican Party organization at the precinct, county, district, and state level.

Very Conservative

I am one of two current members of the Beaufort County School Board who are members of the North Carolina Conservative School Board Members Association. I am a former board member of both the North Carolina Conservative Society and the North Carolina Conservative Union (which was a state affiliate of the American Conservative Union). As a law student, I was a summer intern with the American Conservative Union in Washington, DC

Strongly Disagree

Title IX of the Civil Rights Act was passed to protect women and girls in education. Allowing biological males into women's spaces like those listed would be a total reversal of those protections and should not be tolerated. Because the male body is physically stronger than the female body, allowing biological men into women's or girls athletics is nothing short of cheating.

I am a Missouri Synod Lutheran, which is a traditional Bible believing denomination, which does not promote the so-called "social gospel"

Strongly Agree

The Beaufort County School Board just had a vote on an issue related to this. I made a motion to remove language that says educational personnel should decide if books parents objected to should be removed from libraries. My motion to amend that language to say that the positions of educational personnel and parents should both be considered was defeated on a 4 to 5 vote. We have more work to do to support parents rights in Beaufort County.

Strongly Agree

Our school board recently removed DEI from our Policies, a unanimous vote supporting my motion to do so. DEI is the exact opposite of Dr. King's teachings. I also support Dr. King's niece's observation that "the only race that matters is the human race."

Strongly Agree

Strongly Agree

The British National Health Service protocols for their doctors tell them that gender confusion among children is usually temporary and that children usually grow out of it naturally. I support a similar position here in America. I support President Trump's efforts to end child sex reassignment surgery and related drugs.

Disagree

This is an area where parent opinion matters. It is community standards, not some "expert" that should be followed.

Strongly Disagree

Every industrialized country in the world except the US requires a photo ID to vote. In the US it is only some of the states that require this. North Carolina is one of those states. Photo ID's are essential to election integrity.