Paul's Policies

The first thing I dreamed of doing when I was young was riding a bike very far. Then, I started feeling really sad for my mom because she didn’t have a bike. I wondered how she would get away from my dad when he had tantrums about being in the passenger seat. Sitting in the passenger seat caused him deep emotional damage.

I learned soon that my dad wanted my mom to be a passenger princess. He didn’t want to be demoted to passenger prince by letting her drive instead.

When I started Kindergarten, I didn’t have too many friends. I couldn’t sit straight when our teacher told us to spread out in a circle on the rug in “cris-cross applesauce position.”

Most kids kept their distance from me when they noticed that I had trouble paying attention during carpet time. But, there were two guys who joined forces with me to “beat up the girls” at recess.” I figured that I had nothing to lose by joining them since nobody, especially not the girls, wanted to talk to me anyway. So, I ran with the other boys until there was a chance to sneak away and walk up to the girls who occupied themselves with gripping their way across the monkey bars.

I didn’t really care which girls we were chasing. All that really mattered to me was to find a girl to confront her about why women want to be the passenger princess so bad. This seemed really unfair to my mom because she always seemed to understand a lot better where we were supposed to turn in the car to get where we were going.

I tried talking to them but all they did was scream and ask why I was chasing them. They just couldn’t understand why I thought my mom was trapped in the passenger seat and someone should ask if she was okay.

I tried to explain that if teachers got paid to cheer kids on when they arrived at school on Bike or Walk to School Day, then I could cheer my mom on riding my dad’s bike separately to where we were going so she wasn’t always stuck in the passenger seat with him.

This fear steamed from my dad abusing me when I didn’t clean up the house, but it gave me a brilliant idea for transforming the world of social work.

What if social workers brought fathers who struggled with navigation to counseling with their children who suffer from ADHD and learn the opportunity of getting demoted to “passenger prince” or passenger seat navigator to learn how to find directions to a destination?

Now, there’s Google Maps. And I have learned that there’s more to life than who is in control of the steering wheel in a motor vehicle and who can get away on a bicycle.

Life has values. And there’s more to life than being a poster child for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two years as a missionaries. Learning Christlike attributes makes you more like Jesus Christ, while your 10 values you already know you have bridge the gap to Him.

My top 10 values are candor, poise, stewardship, significance, inquisitive, recreation, awareness, logic, fortitude, liberty, valor, economy, and vitality. And those values give me humility, patience, hope, knowledge, charity and love, diligence, virtue, faith, integrity, obedience, guidance, and charity.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and should invest tithing in values-based therapy for members to help them believe Jesus Christ and take Him seriously when He says that they can become like Him by transforming their own values into His attributes or values.
Let’s be honest. How many times did you invite the kid with disabilities—the one who looked like he was fighting demons—to study with you after school? Would you have the patience to invite them into a study group if they needed AI supports and specialized note-taking templates? For many students with disabilities, fitting into the traditional rhythm of study groups and peer learning is nearly impossible without adaptive tools.

I’ve lived this myself. Today, living with many disabilities, I rely on a Cornell notes template in Google Docs and AI through Khanmigo to help me digest my U.S. history curriculum. Meanwhile, most students are fine using Microsoft Word or asking ChatGPT to spoon-feed them quick answers. For students like me, the only way to catch up is by using different tools—and that difference makes us feel “at-risk.” Teachers often don’t recognize that kids with disabilities shut down when they feel stigmatized for using alternative resources. Instead of being reassured that it’s okay to be “special,” students wake up every morning worried about being different—sometimes to the point of missing breakfast, missing the bus, or avoiding school entirely.

That’s why policy matters. For example, in 2023 Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1 in Florida, establishing universal school choice. The bill expanded the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities and even created a transportation stipend, so students struggling with routines like waking up on time or finding safe travel could better access school. These supports acknowledge that education must meet students where they are, not where policymakers wish they were.

At the federal level, recent initiatives show a similar trend. Signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act introduced sweeping changes to federal education tax policy. While it stopped short of offering direct tax credits for homeschooling, it did expand financial tools—such as scholarship donation credits and flexible 529 plan options—that could benefit families pursuing alternative forms of education. Yet the law offered little to help families whose children return home with behavior challenges, social isolation, and no clear way to reconnect with their peers.

This raises an important question: does homeschooling truly ground children, as commentators like Charlie Kirk suggest, or does it risk leaving them without study groups and trusted friendships? While homeschoolers may have more time for therapy and personalized learning, without intentional opportunities for peer connection, many leave public school lacking the very networks that sustain both academic growth and civic belonging.

My own experience reinforces this tension. When I walked into the board room in Washington D.C. for the Joint Committee on Taxation, the first thing I asked was: “Why are kids with disabilities from poor neighborhoods known as ‘at-risk’?” I don’t even remember the official we were visiting—only that his rapid-fire explanations of interest rates were incomprehensible without AI transcription. Even the brightest juniors at BYU would have struggled to follow. In that moment, I realized we were all “at-risk”—not just kids labeled with disabilities, but anyone expected to learn without the right tools, pacing, or supports.

The path forward is clear. Education policy must move beyond partisan talking points to focus on practical supports that make inclusion real. The next back-to-school agenda for grades K–12 should prioritize AI access, flexible note-taking templates, safe transportation options like biking programs, and intentional study group formation. Only then can we ensure that students with disabilities—and all students—have the chance not just to survive school, but to thrive in it.
Charlie Kirk was shot dead on Wednesday, September 10th, 2025, at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. Erika Kirk, Charlie’s wife who is still alive, has not yet explained who the new leader of Turning Point USA will be.

What many of us may still be wondering is: “Will Erika Kirk take over her husband’s role as master debater on college campuses?” The Charlie Kirk has long been one that has stood for fathers taking care of a family’s finances, but will Erika Kirk now have the opportunity to learn how to take the reins of this family business and learn from their best supporters how to manage their company and personal finances?

More importantly, if she is making her kids Joy Planners, saving up money in their ROTH-IRA, and asking ChAT GPT for healthy recipes from Native American tribes to save her children from the onset of obesity Charlie Kirk warns of, as well as making her little kids neurodivergent Weekly Joy Checklists, her family will not just be thriving but also surviving.

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