As of May 16, 2025, Darlene Carey’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Access to Education

Promises to embody a "traditional and conservative approach."

- Promises to embody a "traditional and conservative approach."

School Curriculum

Promises to spend tax dollars appropriately.

- Promises to spend tax dollars appropriately.

School Facilities & Resources

Candidate website

Said, "I fully appreciate the benefit of a well-rounded education, especially when social and economic disadvantages can be pervasive within a child’s life and I count it a blessing to have worked alongside many great teachers, case workers, psychologists and behavioralists."

Said, "Our children are our number one priority and we must keep them safe in our schools."

- Supports a "well-rounded" education. 
- Said, "Our children are our number one priority and we must keep them safe in our schools."

Student Wellbeing

The candidate's website says, "Supporting our awesome educators, so they have what they need to teach our children."

The candidate's website says, "Employ the best teachers for our children."

Promises to "employ the best teachers for our children."

- Promises to increase teacher retention. 
- Promises to "employ the best teachers for our children."

Teachers

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Darlene Carey

As of May 16, 2025, John David Godbout’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Said, "Our schools should be a bastion of traditional values...I will advocate for a curriculum that prioritizes the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic."

Said, "I will advocate for a curriculum that emphasizes civic education, teaching our students the history and values that have made America great."

- Said, "Our schools should be a bastion of traditional values...I will advocate for a curriculum that prioritizes the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic."
- Said, "I will advocate for a curriculum that emphasizes civic education, teaching our students the history and values that have made America great."

Promises to responsibly budget and eliminate wasteful spending.

- Promises to responsibly budget and eliminate wasteful spending.

Opposes the participation of transgender athletes in sports that correlate with their gender identity.

Promises to maintain "a safe and orderly learning environment."

- Opposes the participation of transgender athletes in sports that correlate with their gender identity.
- Promises to maintain "a safe and orderly learning environment."

John David Godbout

- The Board of Education runs the public school system. The Board of Education is entirely independent from the rest of the county government.
- Board of Education members work together to make school policy, set the budget, and appoint the superintendent to run the schools day to day.
- Board of Education members are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections.

Barrow County Board of Education Member, District 6, Republican Primary

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Access to Education

School Curriculum

School Facilities & Resources

Student Wellbeing

Teachers