Sun Prairie High School
Sun Prairie High School is a Waldorf-inspired Art School, starting at the Lawrence Arts Center next August. A Waldorf school is a student-centered, arts-based learning model, where the teacher is like a guide.
Math teacher Cody Kennedy said that the school will give the students different learning approaches than public schools.
”For the students that attend the school, they'll have more opportunities for experiential learning than what you might in a traditional setting,” Kennedy said.
Art teacher Rachel Downs-Doubrava said that the school will help students who want to focus on fine arts.
“It would help the students who really want to focus specifically on fine arts, because in a more general high school, public high school arena, you have all of the other core classes you have to take and, this would help students sort of zero in,” Downs-Doubrava said.
Kennedy said that the school will be a way for students to express themselves while using their own creativity and will help people see things in a different way.
“Being exposed to the arts, especially at a younger age, really helps students see things in a different way, and can hopefully come up with ways to solve problems that are different, creative, that might take a different approach than what I might do,” Kennedy said.
Ceramics teacher Jacob Lewis said that the Lawrence Arts Center has had financial problems in the past years that could make it difficult to fund Sun Prairie High School. According to the Lawrence Times, over the last few years the Arts Center has had financial issues.
“The Lawrence Art Center has had some financial issues in the past couple years, and funding an arts funding an art high school would be hard unless there are people paying a lot of money for it,” Lewis said.
