I am Beth Campbell from Mills river NC. I am a wife of 18 years to my High School Sweetheart and Best friend. Mother of 3 to the world's most amazing Kids and I am a child Of God. I have spent the last 4 years serving in my church as a Deacon and the last 5 years teaching elementary students about Missionaries and how they can be missionaries for God right here in their own community. I have been privileged to be a volunteer this last year with Child Evangelism and working with Good News Club in our local elementary school once a week after school. This year will be my third year being asked to be the assistant Director for The theatre department at West henderson high for the Spring Musical production. I have always been a huge supporter of the Arts in our public schools and will continue to support them in every way i can. Being able to volunteer my time in our schools through PTO has given me an opportunity to not only spend time with the kids and support them but also getting to know our Teachers better and see first hand a lot of the struggles they deal with. Being in PTO has given me a chance to help our schools through many fundraising efforts, and understanding how so much of what we have accomplished was through the generosity of our community. I spent the better part of two years standing with We The People Of WNC a group of Mothers and Grandmothers who stood on the front lines for our Children and fighting for our Children to be unmasked and back in the classroom. I sadly saw as our children were sold to the Board of Heath and the State of NC for money. I watched as students were allowed to be bullied by others in the school and our administration at the time did nothing to protect the one being bullied. I witnessed sitting Board members tell students to do one thing while they did another, even go so far as to blame children for the spread of covid. I dedicated my time to standing up for the Children and parents who needed a voice and were literally silenced even at Board meetings. During this time it got so bad that the DOJ called moms fighting for their children and their rights "Domestic Terrorist." I watched students organized their own school walkouts because no one would listen or support them . I pray that we never see a time like that again. I want to be a part of a school board that supports its Teachers , Students and Parents. We are a community in Henderson County and we are a blessed one. We are blessed in our county to have so many people who want to support our schools. Our school Board is tasked with supporting our schools and making decisions that impact them in the biggest ways possible and with your support and votes I look forward to being able to be a part of that team.
Three things fuel me everyday. That is my Faith, Family and My freedom. Without the Lord I could not imagine what life would be like. The Lord guides every aspect of my life. My family are my rock, their support and love follow me daily and I am so blessed to have them. Lastly is my Freedom that I have to even be doing this. Men and Woman have been fighting and dying to protect our rights every day. I believe in our constitution and in our God given rights as Americans. Securing the Blessings of Liberty and Freedom since 1787. as a candidate for School Board I want to make sure that Our students in Henderson County have every tool they need to be successful at every stage of their education. I also want to make sure they are prepared to go on to the next stages. Every child should have the best opportunity that we can give them to succeed. I also want to make sure that we are supporting our Teachers the same way. We need to have well qualified and well paid Teachers who are being fully supported and being given tools for success that they need.
Family
Trae an Beth Campbell
My Incredible husband of 18 years, My high School sweetheart and best friend. His support in everything I do makes me stronger and I could honestly not do any of this without him.
My Incredible Girls that make me so proud of each of them every day and the reason I fight for our schools.
I believe that Sexualy explicit material has absolutely no place in the classroom. I fully support the Parents Bill of Rights over their own Children. I believe in School Choice and that our Parents should be able to make that decision for their children. I believe Parents should be able to make the decisions for their children over their health. I do believe that we have a mental Health crises not only in our Country but absolutely in Henderson County. Just last year we heard of so many children in OUR school district alone who commited suicide. That is absolutely unacceptable., we have to make a plan to combat this epidemic and work to put an end to it as quickly as possible and save the lives of the children. I want to see us tackle the issue of over testing our children to their breaking point while simultaneously watching their scores sink, I believe the two are absolutely a product of the other and I want to see us do better. lastly, I would like to see us take on the Food and Nutrition situation strongly this year. I know that there is work being done to make big changes to School Nutrition and I look forward to working with those who are leading to way. While yes Henderson County now has every child getting free Breakfast and Lunch and that's great, but no child in our schools should EVER have to worry about food. The issue is with the food itself. The majority of it is not edible, we live in one of the most agriculturally rich areas and we are not utilizing it in our schools. The food we have now is all frozen or out of a can and the children taste that and most of them are not eating even half of what is on their plate. I have many areas here I want to see change in and many others i didn't mention, but the point of this all is that I want to do everything I can for the Children and Teachers of Henderson County Public Schools.