Erin Longacre

I am so grateful for the opportunity to give you a better idea of where I stand on important issues.

First, let me introduce myself. My name is Erin Longacre and I have a very supportive husband who encourages me to go out on a limb (no pun intended, he is an amputee) and run for State School Board in district 7. I have a daughter going into 5th grade, a son going into 7th, and another daughter going into 10th. I live K-12 education every single day.

I ran for local school board in Canyons School district three years ago. I am a substitute teacher, homeroom mom, a PTSA student leadership coordinator, a crossing guard, and I am in charge of teacher appreciation week at the middle school. I was also apart of the SCC in an elementary school for 2 years. Lastly, I am the co-head coach for the Draper Park Middle School JR Devo mountain biking team. When I’m not officially
working in my children’s schools, I am volunteering in them.

I believe our children deserve a quality education, like the one we received. I am very concerned about the amount of time our children spend on chrome books each day. I’ve been reading the book Glow Kids and the studies are alarming and data shows that schools need to drastically reduce screen time in schools so kids can develop both the attention and
the ability to think. I am concerned with the fact that children are being pushed through education year after year when benchmarks and grade level standards are not being attained. As I’ve been calling members of the SCC, we share many of the same concerns.

You will not find another candidate that is as passionate about education as I. I want to see our kids succeed. I want our teachers to be able to focus on teaching reading,
writing, and mathematic. I want to limit and wean ourselves off of federal funding. I want schools to be a place of learning, hard work, grit, accomplishments, and a place where there is clear expectations and clear consequences.

We can raise the bar in education. Higher education can
start before college. Let’s go back in time and see when our most successful years in education were. We have the data. What were we teaching and how were we teaching it? We have so much to learn from those years.

Please call with questions, comments, or concerns.

Thanks,
Erin Longacre
801-448-4490