Donna Gundle-Krieg, Libertarian for Michigan State Board of Education
Donna Gundle-Krieg from Mancelona has been nominated by the Libertarian Party of Michigan to run for the Michigan State Board of Education. She will be on the ballot on November 8, 2022.
Click here to see a video interview of Donna by the Oakland County Times.
Donna has had a strong interest in education policy for over 30 years. She worked for a short time as a high school teacher, and was the National Education Journalist for Examiner.com. She also researched and wrote about education policy for the Oakland Press, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and several additional publications.
Donna has her B.A. in Communications from Wayne State University, and has taken numerous Master’s level Business and Law courses.
Donna and her husband Dennis raised two children. Steven and Ellie both attended public and private schools, and were homeschooled. Due to their excellent and varied education, both received full scholarships to college.
Based on her experiences as both a teacher and a parent, Donna strongly believes that parents should be more involved in their child’s education, and that teachers should welcome parental input and partnership. She also believes that each child is very different. Some will thrive in environments different from the traditional public schools. Click here to see the Libertarian Party platform on education.
Donna recently met with Justin Amash, former Libertarian Congressman of Michigan.
The main reason that Donna is running for the State Board of Education is to help provide more voices at the table. The current Board of Education members are mostly Democrats, with a couple of Republicans. A large number of people do not identify with either party, and Donna believes that more diversity on the board would help with the public’s divisiveness over education policy.
Donna, who lived in the Detroit area for most of her life, moved to Northern Michigan nine years ago to work in real estate. She owns DEK Realty, a small firm dedicated to improving the town of Mancelona.
In addition to improving her town through her real estate business, Donna was elected as a Mancelona Township Trustee in 2022. She was the second Libertarian in Michigan to ever beat a Democrat/Republican in a partisan election.
Click here to read some of the columns Donna has written about Libertarian policy.
I wish someone would post public lists of Libertarian/ or Conservatives running for public school boards and colleges/universities in Michigan. The lack there of is a huge reason we a in the mess we’re in right now. Take back our schools for education, not indoctrination! You have our vote !
Thank you!!
I like your views on education and understand that you want to bring a non-partisan atmosphere to the Board, but your appearance in the photo with Justin Amash raises a number of red flags for me. Those of us who support President Trump’s agenda of making America great again and literally saving our country from the extreme left consider Justin Amash a traitor to that cause.
Please answer the following questions (I was unable to access your interview with the Oakland County Times):
Why did you post the photo with Justin Amash, and what is it about his politics prompted you to do so?
What actions would you take should there be another mask ‘mandate’ and/or remote learning mandate?
How would you manage to remove the many pornographic books now appearing in our public school libraries and on recommended reading lists?
Who should have the final say on a school’s curriculum?
Do you support requiring teachers who promote political agendas in the classroom to be held accountable up to dismissal and loss of license?
Thank you
Thanks for your questions. Here are my replies:
Why did you post the photo with Justin Amash, and what is it about his politics prompted you to do so?
Justin is a Libertarian who I greatly look up to, because he has strong principles and stands by them. He left the Republican party because he is also weary of the divisive games played by the two parties. Donald Trump has absolutely nothing to do with my position or this election, so I am not going to get into a discussion causing partisan division when Donald Trump does not involve me or my goals and accomplishments.
What actions would you take should there be another mask ‘mandate’ and/or remote learning mandate?
The State Board of Education has no real power, they are charged with providing guidance and resources to the schools. I am strongly against any mandates, and it’s obvious that the school closures did more harm than good. Again, whether I agree with the local school boards or not, these decisions belong with them.
How would you manage to remove the many pornographic books now appearing in our public school libraries and on recommended reading lists? Again, the board has no power to remove books, nor should it. These decisions belong with the local school boards. I do not think books about any kind of sexuality have any place in an elementary school library.
Who should have the final say on a school’s curriculum? The locally elected school board should make the decisions after considering input from parents, teachers, and other interested parties.
Do you support requiring teachers who promote political agendas in the classroom to be held accountable up to dismissal and loss of license? I do not believe teachers should promote any political agenda in the classroom, and they should be held accountable. However, teachers are not licensed. They are certified, which is quite different.