Tripp Arrowood-Candidate Stephens Co. Board of Education joins the Lori Duke Show!

Thomas Alvin Arrowood III is originally from Toccoa, Georgia. 

Board of Education

Thomas Alvin Arrowood III (Stephens County School System school board, District 2, Post 1, Georgia, candidate 2026)

Thomas currently serves as a member of the Stephen County Board of Education, representing District 2. He was first elected in 2022 and is serving his first term. 

As of March 11, 2026, Thomas "Tripp" Alvin Arrowood III did not have a website or any information online.

Access to Education

Said, "we as people of faith, we as people of conservative values in rural America have to ensure that our students are being taught the things that we want them to be taught, not what a left-leaning person in New York or Atlanta feels as though they should be taught."

Opposes education that argues racism is ingrained into society as a whole, particularly through policies, laws, institutions, and structures.

- Said, "we as people of faith, we as people of conservative values in rural America have to ensure that our students are being taught the things that we want them to be taught, not what a left-leaning person in New York or Atlanta feels as though they should be taught."
- Opposes education that argues racism is ingrained into society as a whole, particularly through policies, laws, institutions, and structures.

School Curriculum

School Facilities & Resources

Student Wellbeing

Teachers

Thomas "Tripp" Alvin Arrowood III

Thomas Alvin Arrowood III

- 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.