Margo Logan

Logan earned a bachelor's degree from Central Washington State University in 1976 and a master's degree from Portland State University in 1992. Her career experience includes working as an analyst and expert witness in the following areas: civil lawsuits, administrative hearings, family court around the issues of daycare licensing, child protective services, public schools, and government regulation of small businesses.[1]

Logan has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]

National Association of Social Workers, elected board member and delegate

Nominations and Leadership Committee, chair

Chamber of Commerce's Drug and Alcohol Task Force, former chair

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm Margo Logan, former group life counselor to foster teens, CPS investigator, daycare licensor, taught recognizing child abuse class, sub in the schools, now an expert witness civil lawsuits.

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?

The 1854 public school system and teachers' union created by Congress has crashed.Time to return to school choice both public and private options. Homeschooling has increased 10-25%, other options have emerged as well.Public schools downsize then form competitive systems to attract rather than compel parents and students to join.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Transparency. To find solutions and creatively innovate schools that engage students to read, to write, to love learning requires telling all the secrets hidden for decades from parents.

From there the best and most passionate will appear to create a better world for the entire United States of America.

As a former state government public records coordinator/whistle blower I know how state government hides the secrets that if parents and the media knew we could form schools that uplift students and accomplishments results.

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

Edward Snowden, NSA/CIA whistle blower. Edward is right, whistle blowers come out of circumstances where they witnessed wrongdoing that they could not unsee , it wears on you, you work to do to make a government agency to obey the laws, but it doesn't and morally you are compelled to tell the public the truth.

Snowden is right, it is better to tell the secrets.

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

This Constitution for the United State and the Bill of Rights. The documentary and many speaking engagements of Edward Snowden. The Oliver Stone film "Snowden".

John Taylor Gatto, New York Teacher of the Year, "The Underground History of American Education".

Rudolph Flesch, 1981 "Why Johnny Still Cant' Read".

Lloyd De Mause, Alice Miller on the history of child abuse .

Gary Greenberg, "The Book of Woe". And history books on the founding fathers of the Constitution.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Transparency and truth. Over the decades government has hidden more and more public records. Our governor shutdown out State Capitol building so we the people cannot do oversight on our government.

The public schools hide sex abuse of students. I have tried for 7 years to get my representative, Speaker of the House, Tina Kotek, to meet with me about this and she will not. It is why I ran for office last year and now this year.

Open up Oregon and tell the truth about child sex trafficking that has gone on in Portland (and well up and down the I-5 corridor).

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

I'm analytical, I often have seen solutions others didn't see. In heading up committees my success in part is because I believe work must be fun, there must be lightheartedness that allows creativity to come out. In the ones I headed up we achieved success and had a good time finding the solution to make our projects successful.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Be transparent and tell the truth. I have my MSW in administration and I like W. Edward Deming's principles of management that quality starts at the top, it cannot be delegated.

What legacy would you like to leave?

That I saved or got justice for a few children.

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

We lived in West Germany dad US Army intelligence that worked with CIA at the time the Berlin Wall was being built. I was ten. We were on high alert through that, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Sr.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Beside working in the farm fields picking strawberries, raspberries, cucumbers and bulbs I worked in high school as a dishwasher at the Sucia Reef Cafe for over two years. At 17 in high school I worked three nights a week; it instilled discipline, it was fun and I bought my first car with my own money.

What is your favorite book? Why?

"The Book of Woe" by Gary Greenberg because it was everything we school of social work graduates knew in 1992. about the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual). Greenberg outed the whole scam and did it in such a humorous way I laughed and laughed.

The DMS was created and expanded to get insurance money that's the only reason social workers were using it.

In the beginning of our country there were only two diagnosis. The person was either alcoholic or insane and you couldn't diagnose insanity until the person got sober. Now we have over 500 items that are merely a check list of behaviors. No one wants to ask the question that would help folks struggling the most.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Probably Nancy Drew or Wonder Woman. Smart and strong.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

"Sound of Silence" by Disturbed. Very powerful cover of that Simon and Garfunkel song.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Working inside state government, witnessing the secrets and trying to get the information out to a broader group of people including parents to understand how failed unelected government managers were taking away their and their children's rights.

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

Transparency and truth telling to parents and to students. Out of that comes solutions, innovations, creativity and accomplishments.

Who are your constituents?

The students and parents.

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

When Congress created the public school system and the NEA (National Education Association) in 1854 they brought in institutional racism. 1954 Brown vs the Board of Education was a lawsuit against "PUBLIC" education not private education.

Once we learn and understand that history we create a system then draw to that system the best and the brightest. Attending military dependent schools I know what a school environment looks like that has no racism in the schools. Military school kids out perform civilian public schools.

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

Zone #4 is wonderfully diverse area of Portland, Oregon. I will go out (when this 99.9% Recovery Rate Virus thing is over) to community centers and churches and meet with parents and students. I am taking no donations. I interviewed with several groups to have a conversation with them. I don't expect endorsements. If any endorse me it will not inform my decision-making.

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?

No. My background born in Washington State, growing up in the military, living overseas in Japan and Germany, living in Oklahoma, Texas, Idaho, my life involved diverse communities, I would not make decisions based on ethnicity, only on qualifications and a look at a person's professional goals for the school district.

I was a big supporter of Cesar Chavez's United Farmworkers and I had the honor of meeting him. I studied Black history in college as well as being in that community for a time. I've been to Martin Luther King, Jr's childhood home, his Center for Social Justice in Atlanta and to Memphis to the motel where he was assassinated.

The public schools brought in institutional racism. That needs to be discussed.

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

The public schools being used for political machinations which have terrified and confused the kids. I would stop the political use of children.

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

Good teaching comes from well read critical thinking teachers and that is not what public school colleges are doing. I have met not one teacher who knows the history of their own profession.

Quality starts at the top and with the school board. With that achieved the best teachers will come.

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?

Whatever the fabric of the community is and the work needed in the community that kind of training, teaching, skill building will be in the schools. I am sure the business community would be happy to be on board with a vision of creating a vibrant and safe community.

Portland, Oregon has been in hell for over a year. Our elected officials have failed Portland's community.

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

Out of this last year with the government leadership failures citizens and parents have stepped up to the task of creating learning entities and systems themselves. 10-25% increase in homeschooling alone and that will grow. With that the public school can downsize and begin a soul searching look at why Congress created in 1854 this school system, why it failed then let the healing and healthy growth begin.

I can teach the board and teachers "Why Johnny Can't Read" (Rudolph Flesch) and correct it now. Subbing I've seen the confused and cobbled way of teaching in the schools that makes kids hate reading.

What principles drive your policies for safety in schools?

In Portland, Oregon right now the violent crowd is still at it and recently attacked the Portland Public School District building, destroyed vehicles, set fires. In my interview with the Teacher's Union they had not a thought about these school buildings being wide open and vulnerable to being violently attacked.

The anti-authority youth out on the streets for a year or even the ones just watching the violence for a year how many of those kids will come back into the school and won't be putting up with a scolding teacher?

All our governor and the teacher's union is focused on is masking up children and wiping down some counters. Not a thought about the over a year violence.

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

We'd hire administrators, principals and teachers who can create an environment of health and safety.

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

Kids need to go back to reading books and writing in real time, connection, ideas and community. The internet is so bad now, it is a wasteland of mostly political propaganda and commercial ads. Kids need human connection.

Kids can take one technology class during the day. The others classes must fill them with the joy of learning.

Tell us your favorite joke.

There was a ship at sea. One day the crew came running, "Captain, there is a pirate ship coming!"

"Quick", said the Captain, "Bring me my red shirt." They did and fought the pirates and won.

The next week the crew came running, "Captain, there are three pirate ships coming!"

"Quick", said the Captain, "Bring me my red shirt!". They did, fought the pirates and won.

The crew asked, "Why do you want your red shirt?" Captain said, "In case I get stabbed, you won't see the blood, lose heart and stop fighting."

The next week the crew came running, "Captain, there are ten pirate ships coming!!"

"Quick", said the Captain, "Bring me my brown pants!"

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

There is no emergency in Portland, Oregon. From March 2020, the first 3 weeks daily I went to ERs, Urgent Cares, MASH tents and test sites. I documented. There was and is no emergency going on. At my doctor's office one day when I was the only patient in the clinic I asked about our mostly empty test site, why was no one there. She said, "Because we were getting too many negative test results".

Not one child has died in Portland, Oregon in over a year now. Masking up children is child abuse. Isolating them, terrifying them is child abuse. Our governor's theme of her administration is "Revenge is a dish best served cold and slowly". Our governor is in violation of the Oregon Constitution and state law in my opinion.

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