Editor’s note: information below has been provided by a political candidate announcing her intention to run for office. Other candidates wishing to run for political office will have equal opportunity to announce their intentions.
Rebecca Van Ess has announced her candidacy for the School District of Fort Atkinson Board of Education. She will be running as one of six candidates in the Feb. 15 primary. The four candidates receiving the most primary votes will advance to the April 5 general election.
Van Ess is a single mom of five children. She has homeschooled, used private schools, and public school so she has experience with all three options that are available.
Van Ess works as an independent contractor helping within and outside of the community as a Non-Emergency Medical Transporter, getting people to appointments.
Within her announcement, Van Ess said: “I have decided to run for Fort Atkinson school board because I feel that we have moved away from the conservative, freedom loving principles that our country was founded on. I stand boldly on a foundation of freedom. Freedom to choose. Freedom to learn. Freedom to speak. Freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness.”
Van Ess continued: “I think we can all agree that Covid and how to properly handle Covid is the greatest issue on everyone’s radar. Fort boasts of being unified as 1.
“I stand firmly on the foundation of PDCA: plan, do, check, and adjust. The school district, under federally funded mandates, planned on how they were going to handle Covid. Then we did what they planned. We have checked the results that the plan got us and realized it wasn’t working. Unfortunately, the school district didn’t adjust according to the results. I suggest that we put aside the notion of using masks.”
Van Ess stands firmly on the foundation of the basics — reading, writing, and arithmetic — as the main focus for public education.
“That’s how it was for generations and our country was thriving. Why did we change it? Look at how it has negatively affected our children,” Van Ess said, adding: “I believe in examining the fruit that is being produced from the seeds that we are planting. I don’t know about you, but what I see is a bunch of rotten fruit being produced. It’s time that we start planting different seeds. It’s time for a major PDCA.”
Rebecca Van Ess
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