WAUKESHA - Waukesha School District
administrators are looking to expand the wildly popular online
school iQ Academies by adding a middle school curriculum.
According to a proposal put forth by administrators, there are
six other virtual schools in the state offering middle school
programming, and by adding it to iQ, it would help enrollment.
"We have an awful lot of our parents that ask us if we offer
middle school and it got us thinking," said Rick Nettesheim,
principal of iQ Academies. "We think it would be a really good
fit."
According to the proposal, the programming would be geared
towards students in grades six through eight and offer general
education classes, plus foreign languages, computer fundamentals,
digital photography and Web design. It also states the programming
would include more teacher involvement and supplementation than high
school courses.
