Ingrid Campos
Ingrid Campos is a Palo Alto parent running for school board on the basis of 鈥渢raditional family values.鈥 Although Campos acknowledges that family values can look different to everyone, she values advocating for her own kids within Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD). 鈥淚 want my children to succeed,鈥欌 she said.鈥淚 want to be there and advocate for my children in school before any administrator or teacher. I don鈥檛 think anyone should think that they have a better understanding of my child than me.鈥
Campos strongly believes in parental rights. For Campos, that means changing some of the district policies currently implemented. 鈥淚 believe that sex and politics should stay out of schools,鈥 she said. 鈥淪chool is for education, not for indoctrination and not for social services.鈥
Trying to advocate for children and parents is one of Campos鈥檚 main goals. Her aim is to make sure parents are aware and comfortable with what their children are learning. Campos cites an experience of having issues with her child鈥檚 middle school curriculum. 鈥淢y middle schooler two years ago was assigned a book that was critical race theory based,鈥 she said. 鈥淚t was a Marxist-based book, and I was against it. I didn鈥檛 want my child reading it.鈥
Although Campos has created a platform on the basis of having a choice within school curriculum, she has vigorously condemned Scholastic Books for having books containing LGBTQ+ themes and characters. In her words, Scholastic Books have become 鈥渄eviant publishers.鈥 Unlike her stances on previous issues, Campos believes that there needs to be a district-wide ban of certain books. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 believe that they should be brought into the school under the guise of Scholastic Books,鈥 she said. 鈥淭here are other book companies that the school district can bring in for book fairs.鈥