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A CONSISTENT ETHIC OF LIFE AND THE COMMON GOOD IN PUBLIC
EDUCATION
A
Consistent Ethic of Life
and
The Common Good
require respectful and inclusive community collaboration in the
provision of moral public education, using the broad application
of principles valuing the sacredness of human life.
Threats to life include first abortion, fetal plundering and
euthanasia, but also moral degradation, persistent poverty,
unjust war, capital punishment, the use of nuclear arms,
violence, racism,
trafficking and exploitation.
Threats to The Common Good include illicit acquiescence
to special interests (e.g. the abortion lobby) and coercion
(e.g.
WSSDA)
that promote moral degradation. As a school board
member, will you work to ensure that public education is based
on a Consistent Ethic of Life and contributes to The Common
Good? YES
SEX EDUCATION
In 2020, the Washington State
Legislature passed
SB 5395
(see
also here),
which requires all public school districts to teach
comprehensive sex education, using
programs approved by the State.
Many of these programs have objectionable content, such as
sexualizing children, teaching
children to consent to sex, normalizing anal and
oral sex, promoting homosexual and bisexual behavior,
promoting sexual pleasure, promoting solo and/or mutual
masturbation, promoting condom use in inappropriate ways,
promoting early sexual autonomy, failing
to establish abstinence as
the expected standard, promoting transgender ideology, promoting contraception and
abortion to children, promoting peer-to-peer sex ed or sexual rights advocacy, undermining traditional values and beliefs, undermining
parents or parental rights and
referring children to harmful resources (see
comprehensivesexualityeducation.org).
See here
for harm analyses of many of the Washington State approved
programs,
including FLASH.
See
school district sex ed programs here.
OSPI main sex ed webpage here.
Will you as a school board member work to promote
life-respecting sex education?
YES
SCHOOL CLINICS
Washington
State continues to facilitate the expansion of school based
clinics, most recently in 2021 legislation that established a
State office for that purpose (HB
1225).
A
2010 incident
that received widespread news coverage involved a Seattle area
in-school clinic that set up an abortion for a 15-year-old high
school student with neither her parents’ knowledge nor consent.
What is your position on schools dispensing birth control drugs
or devices, giving abortion counseling, or providing referrals
to off-site abortion facilities?
_____ Support
__X___ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
SCHOOL CHOICE
The Supreme Court in
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
(2002), held that Ohio's school voucher law did not violate the
First Amendment's establishment clause. It states, "the
Ohio program is entirely neutral with respect to religion. It
provides benefits directly to a wide spectrum of individuals,
defined only by financial need and residence in a particular
school district. It permits such individuals to exercise genuine
choice among options public and private, secular and religious.
The program is therefore a program of true private choice" and
"the program does not offend the Establishment Clause."
Legislation has been introduced in the past (HB
2933 by Vicki Kraft in 2020)
to allow
scholarship tax credits
for lower-income families to send their children to an approved
private school of their choice. The Jan 2020 SCOTUS case Espinoza
v. Montana Department of Revenue
indicates the fragility of
Washington State's Blaine Amendment.
What is your position on school vouchers, tax credits or
other methods of increasing school choice in Washington State?
__X___ Support
_____ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
COVID 19 POLICY
What is the way forward for schools during the Covid 19
pandemic?
_____ Continue with Current Policies Restricting On Site
Learning
__X__ Open Schools More Fully
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
SOCIAL EQUITY
The 1960's developed theory called
Social Equity
isn't so much about a charitable welfare tool, one that helps
groups of people with targeted characteristics, such as
persistent poverty, low educational achievement and poor health
to improve their circumstances. Welfare generally confers
equity in some form, often financial. Rather, social
equity demands reparations for past injustices, be it the slave
history of Black Americans or some other oppressed group, using
equal outcomes as a measure for success. In an educational
setting, this can result in the needs of academically high
achieving students not being served, where "the
achievement gap"
is narrowed by the removal of advanced educational opportunities
or "tracks." Social equity uses Marxist inspired
Critical Race Theory
as a justification (Camas
example),
with its promotion of oppressor and oppressed classes, guilt and
jealousy, and invoking social justice arguments to address
supposed systemic racism. What is your position on
social equity?
_____ Support
___X__ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
What is your position on teaching
Marxist inspired
Critical Race Theory (CRT)?
_____ Support
___X__ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
1619 PROJECT
What is your position on teaching the much
criticized
1619 Project
on American history? See also
here
and
here (Wiki).
_____ Support
_X____ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
ABORTION
Even
dedicated proponents of abortion
acknowledge that life begins at conception. What do you
believe? Does a unique human life begins at conception?
YES
The 14th Amendment states "nor shall any state deprive any
person of life, liberty or property without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws." The Supreme Court in
Roe v. Wade,
1973, stated that "if this suggestion of personhood is
established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the
fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by
the [14th] Amendment." The Court regrettably concluded
though that "we need not resolve the difficult question of when
life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of
medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any
consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of
man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the
answer." Do you believe that the right to life of the unborn
child is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment?
YES
Is taking the life of a pre-born child through abortion ever
morally permissible? Check all that apply:
___X__ No, it's never permissible
_____ Yes, to save mother's life
_____ Yes, in cases of rape or incest
_____ Yes, for physical deformity
_____ Yes, for gender
_____ Yes, for race
_____ Yes, to punish spouse
_____ Yes, it's always permissible
Do you support parental notification and/or consent
before a minor (under 18 years of age) could have an abortion?
A judicial bypass of parents would be allowed when necessary.
A 2013 poll commissioned by Human Life WA, found Washington
State voters are widely supportive of laws requiring "parental
involvement" in abortion decisions for girls under the age of 18
(62-29% with just under 10% undecided).
Read a summary of the results here.
Do you support:
Notification? YES
Consent? YES,
Adoption is always the best choice…
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
The nation's biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood,
in the 2018-2019 fiscal year
received $617 million in tax payer funding and aborted 345,672
babies. Planned Parenthood is active in Oregon school
districts, where their representatives have been allowed to
regularly address students in both
Portland
and
Salem.
Opposition has been firm and articulate
(segment begins at 12:44). Should Planned Parenthood be
allowed to make presentations to students or provide literature,
birth control chemicals or devices, or abortion services?
Absolutely not… It is not planned parenthood, but
murder. One only needs to see the movie Un planned…
RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA
Recreational marijuana was legalized in Washington State in 2012
by
Initiative 502.
The drug though is still banned federally, and considered
dangerous by many, including
the AMA,
the APA,
and
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Citizens against Marijuana Legalization (CALM)
states "The normalization, expanded use, and increased
availability of marijuana in our communities are detrimental to
our youth, to public health, and to the safety of our society."
The Alaska Association of Police Chief
describe some of the negative aspects of legalizing the drug
here.
For additional dangers see
here.
For an extensive report by the National Academy of Sciences (Jan
2017)
see here.
What is your position on the legal production, processing and
sale of recreational marijuana in Washington State?
_____ Support
___X__ Oppose
_____ No Opinion
_____ Other:
QUALIFICATIONS
Please state your professional experience, community
involvement, education, family successes and other
qualifications for a school board position. Do you have
children of your own?
I serve on several
non-profits boards, all Faith based. I was a part of putting
together the Hope Line; a faith based teen crisis line. That is
why we named it Hope Line… Without Hope, which is given by God,
life may not be worth living. Our children need hope. I am also
a Chaplain who deals with teen crisis quite often. Teen suicide
and mental health issues is at record highs.
POLICY POSITIONS
You may state here any policy positions you
have in relation to the office you are seeking:
Gods Children are priceless to Him and should be to us as well…
If we neglect protecting our children then who will? “If not us
then who? If not now than when? It is time for us to act!
May LifePac post your returned
survey on our website? Your response is only posted with
your permission. YES
Please give your campaign web address if you have one:
Jorge@Bailey4SchoolBoard.com
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