4 years ago I promised that, if elected, I would fight tirelessly to make schools more accountable to families — to speak fearlessly for schools to return to the foundational academics that inform & edify our children’s essential liberties.
I have more than kept my promises, but so much more must still be done.
Utah’s children and families deserve…
freedom to decide their own futures
Schools are increasingly—and alarmingly—partnering with big business to plan out students’ futures based on the workforce needs of today. As early as elementary school, students feel the pressure to begin planning their adult futures, instead of experiencing the joy of just being kids who learn to love learning for its own sake. I have voted time and time against policies & programs that push kids into workforce pipelines that rob them of the freedom to obtain a well-rounded education that will help them to pursue any future they hope for and dream about for themselves.
freedom to think their own thoughts
Freedom of conscience and religious belief are at the heart of our nation’s very founding, and at the soul of every person, young or old. Children do not check their consciences at the school door. Children need to know they are free to act on their sincerely-held internal sense of right and wrong without fear of punishment. I have fought for and defended student and parent conscience and religious belief protected by the U.S. and Utah constitutions, helping to author HB348, aka “The Rights of Conscience” bill, which became state law in 2023. Schools must respect a student’s and parent’s Constitutional right not to participate in any aspect of school that would violate their conscience or religious belief.
freedom from indoctrination
The school system must stop pushing widely promoted but deeply flawed and discriminatory social, economic, racial, environmental, and sexual justice ideologies. Children deserve education, not indoctrination. I have written page after page protesting against schools using children to promote global, national, or local agendas; solve for real or manufactured societal problems; or lobby or agitate as activists for causes or social change inside or outside of school.
freedom from divisive labels
It’s destructive and dehumanizing to create racial and ethnic divisions among children. The Supreme Court recently overturned years of bad law that allowed schools to racially discriminate in the name of non-discrimination. We must pull back on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies that reinforce negative stereotypes, encourage putting kids in boxes with labels that benefit only those who have built an entire industry on profiting from identity politics and programs. I will never stop fighting for every student to be free from divisive “identity” labels, and to be seen instead for the content of their character, and my voting record at the state board backs this up.
freedom to learn untethered from tech
By returning to a strong focus on time-tested, traditional methods & materials for teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and science, our children will be prepared to think and act wisely based on objective self-evident
truths without all the negative side effects associated with tech-based learning.
Children are healthier, happier, and better learners if they are not spending the majority of their time in front of screens. But when a child’s public education depends upon the child having
to learn a learning management system in order to learn how to do math, or to use a Chromebook for a P. E. class, the system is doing that child a huge disservice. I have voted repeatedly against artificial tech-programs that only counterfeit & dumb-down real learning, and keep children from forming meaningful interpersonal relationships.
freedom from surveillance & Sick-making
So much of the learning that children are doing in school is being tracked, measured, and analyzed by corporations that have partnered with the schools to collect and profit off our children’s mindsets and behaviors. This endless data
mining of students isn’t okay, and it constitutes a violation of their 4th Amendment rights. A child’s education should not be conditioned upon that child having to divulge or give the school unfettered access to his or her thoughts
and feelings, or to submit to endless surveys and inappropriate psychoanalysis.
My stance has always been clear and I have informed parents repeatedly—schools have no business implementing intrusive Social Emotional learning practices, policies, and pedagogies, nor should they be providing universal mental health services that suggest that our children are patients instead of students.
My efforts to serve my constituents & safeguard faith, family, and freedom have been tireless
The public deserves a board member who will be a voice for securing children’s innocence, parents’ preeminence, and Constitutional rights, anywhere and everywhere, but especially in our local schools.
As a lifelong Republican, I’ve always stood for conservative, family-first principles. I’ve lobbied the state legislature & our national delegation for desperately needed protections for school children.
My work to safeguard faith, family, and freedom has taken me to the United Nations on several occasions, where I learned firsthand of the global agenda to radically transform education around the world by infiltrating local schools
and minds with destructive ideologies; intentionally sexualizing our children; and destroying freedom by promoting global and digital citizenship over national and state sovereignty.
Above all, my family is my greatest joy and proudest accomplishment.
My critical work as a board member
Fought to stop sexually explicit materials in schools by proposing a model policy that would have helped prevent porn in any form & spoke on behalf of my constituents to fight obscenity in Alpine School District
Spoke on behalf of my constituents against boys in girls’ bathrooms in Jordan School District & exposed changes to Title IX that weaponize gender identity in schools
Voted repeatedly against wasteful big-money contracts for edtech & SEL programs that collect students’ data, promote premature workforce pipelines, and promote DEI ideologies, including motioning to successfully withdraw USBE support for the SHARP survey
Co-authored key legislation securing religious belief & conscience in the classroom, HB348, which passed in 2023 with a super majority, allowing a student or a student’s parent to refrain from participating in any aspect of school that violates their conscience or religious belief
Championed local accountability by proposing a constitutional amendment to untie Utah schools from oppressive federal mandates and regulations, and by voting against grants that increase government control at the expense of families & their children
Utahns unite around Natalie
Natalie has not just served as a state board member, but as the state’s board member. Her willingness to speak boldly on the issues
that concern parents and teachers has earned her the trust and support of thousands of Utahns from every corner of our family-friendly state.