Paul Lloyd Announces Campaign for Rapid City School Board Area Five
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA – Paul Lloyd announces his candidacy for the Rapid City School Board Area Five. Paul is a dedicated father and grandfather. He and his wife, Lynn Lloyd, moved to Rapid City in 2004 where his daughters attended West Middle School and Stevens High School.
Paul is passionate about helping our students become successful in today’s education environment. He is focused on making sure our students’ education comes first and that we are BUILDING OUR FUTURE leaders of South Dakota.
“I look forward to forming a campaign that Rapid City parents and grandparents can be proud of.” said Paul Lloyd “I believe our children and students deserve leaders on the school board who will prepare them for a future beyond academia.”
Paul believes we need to bring vocational education back to Rapid City and help our students achieve higher math and reading comprehension levels to compete with the growing educational gaps among Rapid City Area Schools students and the national standards.
The Rapid City Area Schools represents 26 schools and serves 12,814 students. According to US News, Rapid City Area Schools has a 68% graduation rate and a 22.5 out of 100 ranking in college readiness.
Paul has previously worked in business, ministry, social services and education. Paul has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama in Human Resource Management, a Master of Divinity from Samford University, and a Master of Science of Education from Black Hills State University.
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Paul is the most logical choice for the school board. If you like CRT, if you like pornographic books in the school library, if you like gender dysphoria taught in schools, if you accept that 50% of our students perform below grade level, then Paul may not be your choice. But, if you favor improving the education of our children, protecting them from radical social justice indoctrination and returning to core educational principles, I implore you to vote for Paul.
i didn’t see his stated opposition to any of the evil things you took time to list for us. do we have to just guess about these things? i hate when people hide who they are, whatever they believe. i’m going to have to trust you that this is not happening here, and see if my trust is well placed or not.
Do you know what Critical Race Theory is? As far as there being pornographic books in school libraries I bet you never went to any of the school libraries in the Rapid City Schools and you are just repeating the far right extreme propaganda about children being indoctrinated with “woke” ideology that you yourself can’t even define what “woke” is. All your doing is making comments about CRT and woke from what you hear from the racist far right Ultra MAGA hypocrites like Ron DeeeSantis or DuhhhSantis, Donald Trump and all the other Ultra MAGA candidates who pretend they are concerned about our children’s safety but refuse to do anything to address gun violence, mass shootings and the gun manufactures who are putting even more military assault weapons into the hands of criminals and mentally ill. How about poverty don’t hear any of these Ultra MAGA politicians addressing children living in poverty and food insecurity. No they want to get rid of the SNAP and free school lunch programs so they can continue to give multinational mega corporations, billionaires and multimillionaires huge tax cuts and gut the IRS so they can’t go after these tax evaders. Just like Republicans been doing for the past 50 years blame the poor single mothers who hasn’t abandoned her children and gets no support from these deadbeat fathers who will jump through hoops so they don’t have to pay child support. Then let’s talk about the high cost of daycare that most single mothers can’t afford. Hell, middle class working families can’t afford the high cost of daycare. So don’t go on about trans teenagers and girl sports. They athletics boards and Olympic boards have already made it so transgender males cannot compete in women sports! I bet you don’t even know someone who is transgender because if you actually did and you listened to their story you wouldn’t be so quick to condemn them with your self righteous hatred as you stand on your pulpit preaching your warped and twisted version of the Gospels of Jesus Christ. Instead of condemning people you know nothing about. Besides the LBGTQ population in the United States is 5.6% and that percentage is even lower in South Dakota and Rapid City. As for pornography being in our schools. Don’t blame the schools because if you stopped and remembered back when you were in school it’s teenage boys who were the ones bringing magazines of naked women to school. I remember in my high school library there were books and novels that had sexual content and it did absolutely no harm to me or anyone of my fellow high school students because we are actually much more mature about sexuality and sexual content written in a book. It did no harm to any students. As far as elementary school children they learn about kissing, holding hands and hugging from their parents, family members and friends not from school
teachers, Disney movies and drag shows. They learn about the human anatomy from their parents and siblings. By the time a child reaches the age of 7 or 8 years of age has already learned about how and where babies come from. Most children don’t learn this from a book in the library. If you want to ban books because of violent or sexual content then let’s ban the Bible from all school libraries. If you don’t honk prayer has been banned from schools then you don’t know today’s generation even all the LBGTQ students pray and they probably have stronger faith in their Higher Power than you who sits in judgement of them. Like I told my son. When others pass judgement on you pray for them because their criticism and hate towards you says more about them than it does you. My son is gay and he has more faith in his Higher Power Jesus Christ than all these self righteous Christian Nationalists who preach replacement theory, misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, antisemitism made up grievances, resentments, violence, hate, rage against a made up enemy that Donald Trump and the whole Ultra MAGA bubble has cooked up that isn’t even a threat against them. No the only person who is scared is Donald Trump and the whole Republican-Ultra MAGA politicians, candidates and media outlets are scrambling to cover for him. It’s insanity! Now why does anyone think they are responsible for all Donald Trump’s alleged crimes and him scamming billion of dollars from his followers and using some of that money to hire two different organizations to investigate these conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being rigged and both organizations came back with proof that the election was not rigged with widespread voter fraud and was the most secure election. If anyone is SHOCKED about Donald Trump lying about the 2020 election and still refuse to believe that Donald Trump lost the 2020
election. So be it! Jesus Christ could come down from the heavens and tell them Donald Trump lied about the 2020 election being stolen and rigged and still they won’t believe it! They will be so enraged they will call Jesus Christ a liar and a false prophet! If you think I’m exaggerating. Think again! When are pastors. ministers, priests and other religious figures going to start preaching the GOOD NEWS in the Gospels of Jesus Christ instead of warping and twisting the Gospels of Christ’s teachings and the other books in the New Testament to bend to their far right political beliefs. I’ve seen these so-called religious zealots preaching that Jesus Christ was a racist and wasn’t a man of peace. REALLY? Now I don’t know what Bible they are reading from! It’s not the Bible or the teachings of Jesus Christ I was
taught to put my faith in.
A real Cookoo for Coco-Puffs level comment ya got there.
Finally school board elections are being recognized as crucial to addressing the deterioration of academic performance of our kiddos. The woke indoctrination that has resulted from our inattention and interest in the choice of school board members has gone unchecked far too long.
Paul Lloyd will be an excellent choice to refocus on proper curriculum and academic improvement in our public schools.
First and foremost RCAS needs to have functioning and useable buildings.
Paul should drop the culture wars crap and focus on keeping the lights on.
Where is the “culture wars crap” in this press release? Seems pretty standard to me. Looks like a great candidate who’s focused on improved outcomes for our students.