Charles Touseull

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Charles P. Touseull

Nonpartisan

Elections and appointments

Last election

August 23, 2022

Education

Associate

Nassau Community College, 1975

Bachelor's

C.W. Post College, 1978

Other

New York Chiropractic College, 1988

Personal

Birthplace

New York

Religion

Born Again Christian

Profession

Teacher

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Charles P. Touseull (also known as Doctor T) ran for election to the Pasco County Schools school board to represent District 5 in Florida. He lost in the primary on August 23, 2022.

Touseull completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Charles Touseull was born in Elmhurst, New York. Touseull earned an associate degree from Nassau Community College in 1975, a bachelor's degree from C.W. Post College in 1978, and graduated from New York Chiropractic College in 1988. His career experience includes working as a teacher, chiropractic physician, and medical laboratory technologist. Touseull has been a Pasco Guardian Ad Litem volunteer.

Elections

2022

See also: Pasco County Schools, Florida, elections (2022)

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Pasco County Schools school board District 5

Incumbent Megan Harding won election outright against Charles P. Touseull in the primary for Pasco County Schools school board District 5 on August 23, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Megan Harding (Nonpartisan)	71.3	65,792
		Charles P. Touseull (Nonpartisan)	28.7	26,448

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 92,240
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Gina Gagliardi-Finocchiaro (Nonpartisan)

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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Charles P. Touseull completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Touseull's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, a fighter for the family and a constitutional conservative. Originally from Hicksville, New York, in 1990 I made Florida my home. I’m married to my beautiful wife, Susie for 15 years, we have two children with five grandchildren with two attending school in the Pasco County School.

My experience and education has always been rooted in compassionate service in the community:

   • Teacher; as a substitute and regular teacher from grades K to college
   • Associate of Applied Science from Nassau Community College, N.Y.
   • Bachelors of Science in Medical Biology from C.W. Post College, N.Y.
   • Doctor of Chiropractic Degree from New York Chiropractic College
   • Owned and operated two chiropractic practices in New York and Florida
   • 25+ years of working as a Medical Laboratory Technologist
   • 20+ years teaching children in Christian Children's and Youth Ministry
   • Currently serving as a Pasco Guardian Ad Litem volunteer

As a chiropractic physician I ran multiple chiropractic businesses and I am looking forward to transfer that experience in business accountability to the Pasco County School Board. I believe my experience as a health professional, business owner, Christian youth ministry.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Protecting parental rights since the parent has the responsibility to care for their child and not the school system.
• Stopping all indoctrination; including Critical Race Theory, Comprehensive Sex Education and Social Emotional Learning.
• Promoting financial accountability to expose wasteful spending so the district can be run like a business.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Not having the rights of individuals being infringed upon by a small population segment in the name of granting them rights namely the LGBTQ community. I believe that all students should be respected and be safe.

Keeping the teachers and children safe by hardening all school exits and enabling one entrance way, cameras in rooms and hallways connected to the police department, training teachers who desire to carry concealed weapons and hallway steam cannons to deter the criminals.

Having the public unlimited online access to all the curriculum and books in the schools' library.

Full transparency of the disbursement of all grant monies.

Full forensic audits of district budget so determinations can be made about exposing any wasteful spending.

Face masks should be optional and not mandatory for teachers, workers and student.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Ronald Reagan
Jesus Christ, Because He is the Son of the living God, the Alpha and the Omega. Without His love and our relationship I would not be alive. His grace, His mercy and His forgiveness is all that I need to live a righteous life. He is the air that I breathe and the source of life. I live for Him and am forever grateful for His sacrifice and resurrection.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

The Bible; specifically, the books of Psalms, Proverbs, the Gospels and Romans.
My political philosophy has been developed over the years through understanding that the governments of this world was created by God. My views have been bolstered with the wisdom of Solomon through the books Psalms and Proverbs. The way to be fair and treat people with respect has been reinforced by the reading and living the principles of Jesus in the Gospels and Epistles. Why would I desire any other book that gives me God's will for my life and who knows me because He is my creator? These statements may upset some people, but this country was founded on the beliefs of God. Our constitution was written using the sermons of many preachers. All of the signers of the Declaration were believers in God.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

Financial acumen as a businessman.

Educator as a teacher.

Fighting voice of fairness and reason from being a missionary to the Native Americans.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Seven years old.

What is your favorite book? Why?

Bible.

It contains the wisdom, the will of God and is a love letter to all mankind,

It is a supernatural book that will transform anyone's life if they open their heart to the Spirit behind the Book.

What is the primary job of a school board member in your view?

To create policies that govern the daily operations and manage the educational system within my county and the implementation of those policies are to be carried out by the superintendent.

Who are your constituents?

The Pasco county citizens, to include the teachers, students, workers and parents.

How would you support the diverse needs of your district’s students, faculty, staff, and community?

By holding monthly focus groups consisting of teachers, students and parents in order to hear the pressing issues that they are facing.

How will you build relationships with members of the broader community? Which groups, organizations, stakeholders will you specifically target?

By holding monthly focus groups consisting of teachers, students and parents in order to hear the pressing issues that they are facing. Collaborating with community leaders, churches and businesses to build trust and partnerships within the schools.

Do you believe it is important to intentionally recruit with the aim of diversifying the district’s faculty, staff, and administration? If so, what would be your policy to achieve this?

I believe the intention is to recruit the best qualified personnel and not to have the end goal to be diversified.

What issues get in the way of quality education? How would you address these obstacles?

State legislators that create laws that do not have any experience with the educational system. These laws can sometimes put students into a box instead of letting them be creative in their own right.
Possibly if allowed to lobby our local legislators to make common sense laws with the students and parents best intentions in mind.

What constitutes good teaching? How will you measure this? How will you support advanced teaching approaches?

Being able to draw out of the student their very best talents.

According to the student's way of learning; whether it be project or test based metrics.

Making sure the funding and research backs up the success of the methodologies.

In what areas would you like to expand curriculum? For example, do you see a need for advanced technical training or apprenticeships? What sort of innovative programming would you advance if given the opportunity?

Vocational training partnering with local businesses need to be developed.
Different tracks of academic learning; dual enrollment towards Associate Degrees while having a non-college track.

What strategies or plans would you advance to ensure the schools are properly funded?

Forensic, line by line, independent audit of the district's budget to expose wasteful spending.
Possibly closing underutilized schools so expenses could be saved for teacher and worker salary raises.

What principles drive your policies for safety in schools?

The students and personnel deserve more safety than what we currently offer them. The way schools are treated we protect our courthouses better than our schools.

How might you support the mental health needs of students/faculty/staff?

Recruiting competent counselors that could come alongside and support the students/faculty/staff in times of crisis so that the appropriate referrals can be made. These measures would be on a crisis intervention basis and not long term.
I would also support mental health educational involvement in the student's curriculum.

What role do you imagine technology playing in (and outside) the classroom in the future? How would you prepare the district for this?

Technology can be a very useful tool in the classroom, but it is a double-edged sword. Used the proper way it can help teach a concept and provide outcome measures for monitoring the students' progress. It should not be used as a babysitting tool especially in the elementary aged children to where they become focused and dependent on technology instead of having a blend of teacher-led lessons. Being a teacher, I have seen too many classrooms become too dependent on the testing of concepts using technology because the students learn how to "game" the software. In order to best prepare lesson plans should have a maximum amount of technology versus teacher-led instruction.

What are your views on how to address schooling during pandemic times?

The school board and administrators are not public health officials. They need to listen to the Florida Department of Health and to the governor's recommendations. I am against the long-term remote classes as they are too difficult to manage especially for elementary ages and also teacher preparation is too extensive. I am against mandatory vaccines and masks and should only be optional by instruction from the parents. As a chiropractic physician this pandemic has been more about politicizing and fear rather than commonsense scientific data. The children became the pawns and paid a dear price through isolation, fear and lost school days.

What will you do to build a relationship with parents in the district? What plans do you have to be inclusive of parental involvement?

By holding monthly focus groups consisting of teachers, students and parents in order to hear the pressing issues that they are facing. To build strong parent teacher associations. To ask parents to buy into performing volunteer service in their students' schools so strong relationships can be fostered.

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