We all want what’s best for our students in New Albany – and that’s not Joe Quigley and Jen Fuller. Here’s the bottom line:
New Albany is moderate but Joe and Jen aren’t.
Joe Quigley and Jen Fuller want teachers to keep secrets from parents.
Joe and Jen don’t believe you have a right to know when your kids are struggling.
Joe and Jen want teachers to overrule your family’s values.
Joe and Jen are in the pocket of the teacher’s union and with a contract negotiation next year, your already high taxes will only go higher still.
Joe and Jen want to spend school time and money on highly partisan and divisive programs like DEI, CRT, and LGBTQIA+ rather than reading, writing, math, and science.
Joe and Jen aren’t moderate — they’re extremists.
Paul Naumoff, Mark Wilson, & Alex Bilchak are the moderate voices we need to keep the New Albany-Plain Local Schools focused on education and spending your tax dollars where they benefit all students.
Two new candidates are running for the New Albany-Plain Local Board of Education to replace Paul Naumoff, who’s running for re-election and Alex Bilchak, who’s running for his first term on the Board.
One of the candidates, Joe Quigley, not only wants teachers to spout gender nonsense to your children as young as primary school without your knowledge but to keep secrets about your children from you. The other, Jen Fuller wants to force your kids to wear masks.
Joe Quigley demands teachers and administrators hide students’ gender “transition” from their parents.
Joe Quigley spent months last school year attending BOE meetings demanding the Board rescind the policy that requires parents to consent to a minor student’s request to be called by a pronoun different from their biological sex. Not only does Mr. Quigley want the school to promote children exploring their “gender identity”, he demanded that teachers hide a child’s newly discovered transgender identity from their parents. He nonsensically claimed that a pronoun is no different from a nickname, but that if the school didn’t use that nickname the child might kill themselves. Imagine your feeling as a parent if the school knew of your child’s suicidal risk but hid that information from you. That’s what Joe Quigley wants for New Albany and that’s why he’s wrong for the New Albany-Plain Local Board of Education.
Jen Fuller was a Covid extremist whose preferred policies harmed kids and she’d do it again.
Jen Fuller spent months during Covid demanding, sometimes in tears, that the school force your kids to wear masks and stay isolated from their friends, even though the evidence was clear that masks made no difference and the policies she championed were harmful to kids. When the current BOE lifted the mask mandates forced on the school by the county health department, she was certain, along with all the other maskers that the school would have to close because so many kids and teachers would be sick. She was wrong then and you can’t trust her to not make the same mistakes during the next flu season.
Now they’re so desperate, they’ve sent out a message declaring that our district is poorly run despite being one of only 8 districts out of 607 in the entire state to achieve a 5 Star overall rating and 5 Stars on every individual metric.
Joe Quigley and Jen Fuller are running to serve the teacher’s union, not your kids.
They’re also claiming we don’t spend enough on teachers. Clearly they didn’t watch the last board meeting where the current BOE approved contracted pay increases for many teachers, including those who are already making over $100,000 per year. Our district treats our teachers as professionals and pays them accordingly.
The only reason the teacher’s union endorsed Joe and Jen is because they want even more money despite there being no evidence that paying existing teachers even more money produces better outcomes for kids.
Joe Quigley and Jen Fuller would raise your taxes with no benefit to students.
There’s a new contract negotiation coming next spring and the teacher’s union thinks Joe and Jen will give them huge raises that will force a new tax levy on top of the already high New Albany taxes. With the new Franklin County property revaluation showing an average increase of 36%, Joe and Jen will assure taxpayers will get hit even harder — with no benefit to your kids.
Prior to the current BOE, our district was in a never-ending cycle of boom and bust teacher contracts and repeated tax levy increases. The current BOE solved that problem AND increased academic achievement of our district from 63rd in the State to now in the top 8. And they did it without a single new operating tax levy, living within their means for 12 years and having the current 5 year budget forecast still ending with a positive cash balance.
The reason our district achieved such great outcomes for kids over the past 8 years is because they focused on academic outcomes, not gender and racial nonsense or paying more money for worse results.
If you want to keep district going in the right direction, Vote for Paul Naumoff and Alex Bilchak.