Several Clay County candidates are declining to participate in Clay Family Policy Forum Inc. (CFPF) candidate surveys this year. As reported by Clay Today they are concerned about the relevancy of some of the questions.

The school board survey for 2016 polls candidates’ positions on everything from the participation of parents in policy creation to the necessity of the state mandated three percent reserve fund.

A lot of the questions also ask the candidates to advise how they feel about marijuana legalization, abortion, same-sex marriage and the threat of radical Islam.

District 4 School Bard candidate Mary Bolla said:

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There are 90 something questions on the questionnaire, and most of them are not relevant to the job at hand. I’m running for school board, and I would answer questions about my education, my philosophy answer and about what I teach. I’m not sure about the validity of this particular questionnaire for the position that I’m running.

Since created in 2006, CFPF has committed itself to sampling candidates on a broad range of topics and what it describes as pro-family social issues facing the county.

Clay County Superintendent hopeful Addison Davis has also declined to participate in the survey.

Davis said:

I just think at the end of the day this needs to focus on education. Anytime we can talk about improving teaching and learning, then that should be the area of focus. Do we all have core values of life and family? Absolutely, but when we talk about a race for someone to prove the values and educational foundation of our children it should be all teaching and learning.

CFPF has had issues in the past and it will be interesting to see if they agree to revise their survey’s or if candidates will just continue to refuse to answer them in the future.