Reim, Cody

Meet the Candidate

Running For:
School Board
District:
Cave Creek Unified School District
Phone:
(480) 310-6774
Age:
33
Occupation:
Self Employed - Construction
Education:
Associates Degree
Biographical Info:

As a Husband, Father, and business owner, Cody knows the importance of making a positive impact in the lives of others, through dedication, and consistency.

Cody was an integral part in restoring hauled water to the Rio Verde Foothills, which was facing a crisis when Scottsdale decided to no longer provide the water resource for the trucks that haul water to the area.

Cody stood up as a leader and took charge of the situation on behalf of the residents of the Rio Verde Foothills, just as he will do for the students and parents of the Cave Creek School district. He is a person who looks at a problem and finds ways to solve the problem with a win-win attitude.

As a small business owner, he knows the importance of balancing a budget, solving challenges, and focusing on details, and he will use those skills as a Cave Creek School Board member.

As a father of school-aged children, Cody wants the best education for his children, and yours. This is why he believes the public school system should earn parents’ trust and improve the quality of the education taught, which in turn, may increase enrollment.

He is a family man, community leader, and will be a positive asset to the Cave Creek School Board.

Statement:

I enjoy helping people and solving problems. I formed my business around this and made it my job to help people with issues in their homes that need resolved or improvements they would like to make around their properties. It was an honor to be able to assist in the resolution of the Rio Verde Water crisis in 2023 and 2024. While in the middle of that battle, friends and neighbors made me aware of a few issues in CCUSD such as a bus route being terminated for our area and a possible elementary school closure. I found these to be unacceptable and the taxpayers of Cave Creek Unified deserve better than that. I believe I can be an asset to the district and bring new ideas and resolutions to longstanding problems.

Survey

Response Legend

  • SSupports
  • OOpposes
  • *Comment
  • −Declined to respond
  • †Declined to respond, Position based on citation

Question Response Comments/Notes
1. Requiring district and charter school officials, including teachers, to inform parents about their child’s social, mental, emotional, or physical health. S* Of course the parents need to be informed. Schools should not be withholding anything from the parents regarding their child.
2. Allowing parents to opt their children out of activities or lessons that offend their personal, moral, or religious beliefs. S* Parents know what is best for their child and what their child is mentally and physically capable of. Parents make the choice in what morals and religious beliefs they desire to instill in their children and they should be able to chose to opt out of activities that do not align with these choices.
3. Increasing state and local taxes to provide more funding for schools and school facility projects. O* Initially I oppose raising taxes. In regards to CCUSD I don’t believe requiring the taxpayers to give more money to a system that is not representing them will necessarily cause this system to represent them any more effectively. There are issues that need to be resolved and the district should exhaust all options before even considering raising taxes.
4. Requiring signed permission from a parent before a student may participate in any sexuality related instruction, activities, or clubs. S* It is the parents right to know when sexually related instruction is going to take place and absolutely permission slips must be required. Staff and Teachers must take this type of instruction seriously and ensure that students who do not have parental permission are offered an alternate class or activity. Sexuality related clubs should not be permitted at school at all. We need to take education seriously again and return it back to simply educating.
5. Allowing all parents to use tax credits and publicly funded empowerment scholarship accounts to enable their children to attend any private, homeschool, or online academy of their choice. S* I absolutely support this. If your public school cannot represent you or is failing your family, you should be able to choose where you send your children and the funding should follow your child. Competition is good, and the US education system has been lacking competition for quite some time.
6. Making available books and instructional materials that include sexually explicit images and themes in school classrooms and libraries. O* Again, school needs to return to simply educating instead of sexualizing our youth.
7. Acquiring parental consent for school faculty and staff to refer to students by pronouns that do not align with the student’s birth sex. S* Requiring consent of the parent will ensure that the parent is aware this is occurring with their child if they weren’t already aware of it. The parent can then decide what is best for their child and their family.
8. Allocating teacher pay raises based upon merit rather than providing uniform salary schedule increases based upon years of teaching or additional credentialing (e.g. master’s degrees) S* Merit based pay raises will exponentially encourage and support those great teachers we already have in our schools and will encourage more great teachers to come to our state to teach. Under a tenure based system, teachers can become discouraged because they know they won’t see a pay raise until a certain timeframe is met, no matter how great they are in the classroom.
9. Implementing policies to allow students and faculty to use the restroom, locker room, and shower room based on self-identification rather than biological sex. O* Boys need to use boys restrooms and girls use girls. This movement to change this is absurd and wrong.
10. Teaching what is known as diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI); social, emotional learning (SEL); or critical race theory (CRT) in public schools. O* Teachers already have enough on their plate, they need to focus on education and giving our students the opportunity to achieve their calling. Teachers do not need to be social workers and psychiatrists as well. With CRT, Promoting one race over another is as wrong today as it was in the past and should not be a part of students education.
11. Requiring each district and charter school to post online a list of all curriculum and instructional materials being used in the classroom. S* Parents need to have easy access to the curriculum their children are being taught from. We need the parents to remain active so we can keep our school boards and faculty accountable for what the students are being taught