American parents are now fully awake to the indoctrination, sexualization, transgender and anti-American agenda the teacher unions, school administrators and progressive teachers educated in our university and college Schools of Education are foisting upon the nation’s K-12 children.

Remote learning through the Covid pandemic was the eye-opener for many parents and the elections in Virginia in 2021 was the initial national pushback against the threat to our children.

The radical progressive agenda now openly professed and supported by many public school teachers, their unions, and the school boards across the United States is amply demonstrated by the curriculum of critical race theory (CRT), social emotional learning (SEL), the 1619 Project, and the perverse sex education and pornographic material forced upon young American students.

‘Equity’ teaching in the form of racially dividing our children into oppressors and oppressed, the Howard Zinn teaching of hatred toward our exceptional history and progress, and the promotion of gender confusion and isolating children from parents in social teaching has strangled the basic role of educators to teach fundamental skills of reading, writing and mathematics and preparation for competent citizenship in adult life.

School board elections were once of minor interest to most Americans. Today these are critical choices every voter must make for the future of our nation, our character as Americans and the preparation of our youth to enter adult life competently with critical thinking skills and an understanding of the great fortune and responsibility of being American citizens.

The Prickly Pear is proud to present three outstanding candidates for the Prescott Unified School District School Board. They represent models for dedicated, qualified and passionate parents and citizens  committed to reforming their districts’ education agenda and the preparation of their students for responsible citizenship.

The following statement by three highly qualified and outstanding candidates for the Prescott School Board should serve as a model for all candidates in school board elections across Arizona and America.

The election of Michele Hamer (4-year term), Dr. Andy Nelson (4-year term) and Linda Conn (2-year term) would be a giant step toward the goals for K-12 education reform described above. Please elect all three and never forget – the schools and teachers should ‘educate’ (properly) American children but the parents of America ‘raise’ their children.

Three Arizona School Board Watchdogs are Candidates for the Prescott Unified School District School Board

By Michele Hamer, Dr. Andy Nelson and Linda Conn

The Arizona School Board Watchdogs (AZSBW) was founded in June of 2021 by 26 concerned citizens whose main goal was to assist parents and guardians frustrated by school shutdowns and the draconian measures used as a “Safe Return to School Plan”. Three of those citizens are now candidates running for the three open seats on the Prescott Unified School Board. They are AZSBW chairman, Michele Hamer, and fellow co-founders, Andy Nelson, and Linda Conn.

Recently, the CDC admitted to what AZSBW and our parents were saying all along: “school guidelines to mask, social distance, test, and quarantine our kids will do more harm than good”. As we researched avenues parents could use to convince the schools to reconsider, the Watchdogs discovered these guidelines were contrary to Arizona law. We also learned that the Prescott Unified School District received $8.1 million in federal funds to pay for this Safe Return to School Plan.

Designed to be a resource for parents, the Arizona School Board Watchdogs built a website as an aggregate of Arizona laws that are sourced from and linked to Arizona’s State Legislature website that specifically impact parental rights and responsibilities. AZSBW never has or ever will give legal advice.

Let’s start with the Arizona Parental Bill of Rights, which states: all parental rights are reserved to a parent or guardian of a minor child without obstruction or interference from this state, including the right to direct the education, upbringing, moral or religious training, and make all health care decisions for their minor child. I don’t know how this could be made any clearer.

Did you know that Arizona residents subjected to quarantine or isolation have the right to due process and representation paid for by the state? That’s right, Arizona Revised Statute 36-789 guarantees that.

And where were our legislators when schools were mandating masks and vaccines? House Bill 36-1301 guarantees Arizona’s constitutional freedom of health care choice and that every person in this state may choose or decline to choose any mode of lawful health care service without penalty or threat of penalty. “Lawful health care services” means any health-related service or treatment that is permitted by law.

Michele Hamer, Andy Nelson, and Linda Conn have worked together in their “Watchdog” roles for the past 18 months helping parents learn these rights under Arizona law and know now is the time to move into a position capable of making parental rights a standard practice at Prescott Unified School District.

Every elected school board candidate is required to take the oath of office. In the oath, the candidate-elect solemnly swears or affirms they will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the state of Arizona; defend the U.S. and Arizona against all enemies, foreign and domestic; and state they will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of their office. Michele, Andy, and Linda are looking forward to the day they can take their oath and serve their community.

In addition to upholding parental rights, this “Conservative Dream Team’s” goals on the board are to return to a classical education and utilize the fundamentals that produced some of our greatest thinkers, from the Roman Empire to our Founding Fathers. They will always put the students’ education first and restore accountability. Wasteful spending on social emotional learning will be phased out and replaced by a culture that focuses on what our students can do for their country rather than what their country can do for them.

If you are concerned about the direction our public schools are taking with regard to gender identities, pronouns, sexual education, CRT and failing grades, Michele Hamer and Andy Nelson should be your choices for the 4-year seat, and Linda Conn for the 2-year seat, in the November 8th election for Prescott Unified School Board.

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To learn more about these exceptional and qualified School Board candidates, go to LindaConn.com, VoteAndyNelson.com, and Vote-Michele.com.