Girmscheid, Melissa Leigh

Meet the Candidate

Running For:
School Board
District:
Peoria Unified School District
Phone:
(623) 428 - 9020
Endorsements:

Save Our Schools AZ

Survey

Response Legend

  • SSupports
  • OOpposes
  • *Comment
  • −Declined to respond
  • †Declined to respond, Position based on citation

Question Response Comments/Notes
1. Requiring district and charter school officials, including teachers, to inform parents about their child’s social, mental, emotional, or physical health. −
2. Allowing parents to opt their children out of activities or lessons that offend their personal, moral, or religious beliefs. −
3. Increasing state and local taxes to provide more funding for schools and school facility projects. −
4. Requiring signed permission from a parent before a student may participate in any sexuality related instruction, activities, or clubs. −
5. Allowing all parents to use tax credits and publicly funded empowerment scholarship accounts to enable their children to attend any private, homeschool, or online academy of their choice. −
6. Making available books and instructional materials that include sexually explicit images and themes in school classrooms and libraries. −
7. Acquiring parental consent for school faculty and staff to refer to students by pronouns that do not align with the student’s birth sex. −
8. Allocating teacher pay raises based upon merit rather than providing uniform salary schedule increases based upon years of teaching or additional credentialing (e.g. master’s degrees) −
9. Implementing policies to allow students and faculty to use the restroom, locker room, and shower room based on self-identification rather than biological sex. −
10. Teaching what is known as diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI); social, emotional learning (SEL); or critical race theory (CRT) in public schools. −
11. Requiring each district and charter school to post online a list of all curriculum and instructional materials being used in the classroom. −