Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

1. Education is a parental responsibility and best handled at the most
local level.

2. Because parents are best situated to decide what is in their own
children's best interests, I support all measures that enhance the
educational choices available, such as charter schools, tax credits for
private school tuition, and home schooling.

3. Compulsory attendance and truancy laws should be repealed. Students
cannot be forced to learn, and teachers should not be forced to act as
juvenile delinquency officers.

4. All individuals, regardless of age, are entitled to the protections
of the constitutions of the United States and Michigan. Random drug
tests, locker searches without probable cause, censorship of student
publications, corporal punishment, or any similar actions violate those
rights.

5. All votes relevant to school operations, including millage proposals,
bond issues and school board elections, should be placed only on the
regular, biannual ballot.

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