Mountain, Jeffrey
Meet the Candidate
Running For:
School BoardDistrict:
Purchase Line School DistrictAge:
42Occupation:
Transportation Construction ManagerEducation: (click to expand)
Why are you running for office? (click to expand)
Survey
Response Legend
- SSupport
- OOppose
- UUndecided
- −Declined to Respond/Undecided, Position Unknown/Unclear
- *Comment
- †Declined to respond, Position based on citation
| Question | Response | Comments/Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Providing state tax credits and education savings accounts to enable parents to choose what school their child attends. | O* | I believe our public education system works well and requires proper funding to operate successfully. School choice limits funding to the school district. |
| 2. Reserving girls’ sports exclusively for biological females. | S* | Unfortunately giving an individual all their rights can mean taking rights away from the majority population. |
| 3. Separating restrooms, locker rooms, and other privacy areas based on biological sex. | S | |
| 4. Permitting students to discuss their Christian faith with others during non-class time on school premises. | S* | Faith could play a significant role in the combat against our mental health crisis. I’m not sure why sharing Christian faith would be non-permissible when it could help individuals struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and any mix of mental health issues. |
| 5. Allowing school personnel to refer students to abortion providers. | O* | This is not a school’s decision to make. |
| 6. Requiring signed permission (opt-in) from a parent before a student may participate in sex education classes or presentations on gender identity theory. | S | |
| 7. Increasing transparency by requiring videos or documents shown to students [which are not part of pre-approved curriculum] be preserved for easy review by administrator and parents | U* | I support full transparency but this could cost significant time which could otherwise be better allocated for instruction. |
| 8. Providing curricula that advocates critical race theory and its emphasis on defining people as oppressors or oppressed based on group identity or privileges. | O* | I support equality and equitability but to further label individuals or groups as oppressed or oppressive further divides are less than united population. |
| 9. Requiring teachers to use "she" to describe a biological male student who identifies as a female, even if the teacher offered a reasonable alternative. | O* | Teachers should not further confusion by deliberately using pronouns to aggravate a student or situation and they should be held accountable. However, they should not be required to use a student’s desired pronouns when it could contradict their own personal belief system. |
| 10. Specifying in school policy that materials containing visual depictions of people engaging in sex acts or explicit written descriptions of people engaging in sex acts is not age-appropriate for the school’s curriculum and libraries. | S |