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An Epidemic of Decline
In response to falling public school standards, former Mequon-Thiensville school board member launches charter school
Cheryle Rebholz is the owner of a boutique shooting range in Mequon, an esthetician, a married mother of three and a former school board member in the Mequon-Thiensville School District. She is also in the initial stages of starting a new independent charter school, North Shore Classical Academy.
Rebholz sat down with Badger Institute President Mike Nichols this week to explain why a new charter school is needed in her area, why parents are already clamoring to sign up their kids and why the politicians should provide the same amount of funding for students at charter and voucher schools as they provide for students at traditional public schools.
I have twin sons. They’re 37. And I have a daughter who is 29. We moved into the Mequon-Thiensville School District when the twins were six in the early 1990s because it had an excellent reputation for general ed and especially special ed. One of the twins needed special education.
My twins did attend the Mequon-Thiensville schools, but we said we’re not sending our daughter because it pivoted. It went from being high-quality, from being a family-like environment, everybody lifting the boat, to new policies, watering down a curriculum, especially in the special ed area.
We were not going to expose my daughter to a school district whose curriculum and philosophy was turning into a different direction and away from excellence.
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