1.  What has been your involvement with the community and school district? Describe your leadership and volunteerism in the community. Did you or your children attend school in the district? Have you volunteered in or been employed by the school district?
President and Coach of Gloster Hornets Youth Football. 1991 graduate of Amite County High School. Volunteered 2005-2024.

2.  Why do you want to serve on your school board? 
I want to make a difference in the community that I live in.

3.  Students from low-income households often need additional resources to achieve academic success. What should your school district do to ensure that all students are successful?
Provide Chromebooks and other electronics and wifi that the kids use to add with their classes.

4.  What strategies would you support to create a safer school environment?  What can your school district do to address cyberbullying, mental health, and physical safety?
Have human resource officers provide lectures; utilize forms of monitoring the usage of online web access.

5.  What do you see as the most pressing infrastructure needs facing your district?
The need for more diversity within administration and committees.

6.  Mississippi school districts are funded by a mix of federal, state, and local funds. The state contributes to local school districts through the new Mississippi Student Funding Formula (MSFF). The MSFF is intended to fund teacher salaries, retirement and benefits, transportation costs, facility maintenance, utilities, special education, and other programs. What role will you play in advocating for full funding of MSFF for your district?
Make sure the funding goes to the programs that need the funding.

7.  Vouchers for private school tuition divert public funds away from public schools and toward unaccountable private schools. Do you agree that tax dollars should be used for only public schools and not for non-public schools? Why or why not?
I think tax dollars should be used on public school education only, because private school education is a choice; their tuition should cover their needs at the private school.

8. In Mississippi, academic standards are set by the Mississippi Department of Education and local districts choose curricula from an MDE-approved list. Do you trust educators in your district to teach using their professional judgment and training or should teaching be further regulated by school board policy or law? If you believe teaching should be further regulated, how so?
I believe the standards that are set are being properly utilized and the standards are being met.

9. Mississippi is experiencing a severe teacher shortage. What strategies will you support to recruit and retain high-quality educators?
By asking them questions about the things that burn them out. I think keeping them fresh and keeping them in place where they are good at goes a long way in keeping them.