While I love your admonishment to parents in your recent editorial I think you are missing the boat about schools in Madera (I don\u2019t know about Valley-wide).<\/p>\n
I am an art teacher from the Madera Arts Council who teaches in all the public schools. I go to all the 3rd and 4th grades and sometimes kindergarten through junior high. I see first hand how the kids and teachers are and how the teachers teach and what their classrooms are like. I am very impressed with Madera teachers and kids.<\/p>\n
Kids are kids. They act up, especially when they see the art lady coming. The teachers always tell them to show respect. I see the Madera teachers really making an effort to instill good habits in their students.<\/p>\n
What classes have you been going to that you feel the teachers need to do better? I think the whole question about why schools \u2014 in general \u2014 are not performing at a high level is a deeply complicated one.<\/p>\n
That said, I completely agree with you about the role parents play. Unfortunately, the behavior I see displayed in too many parents makes me think they should not have been allowed to have kids. But that\u2019s something that is beyond the scope of this letter.<\/p>\n
Thank you for your continued work in making this a more cohesive community and encouraging people to rise to their best and most thoughtful behavior.<\/p>\n
\n\u2014 Ren\u00e9e Benoit,<\/em><\/p>\n \nMadera<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While I love your admonishment to parents in your recent editorial I think you are missing the boat about schools in Madera (I don\u2019t know about Valley-wide). I am an art teacher from the Madera Arts Council who teaches in all the public schools. I go to all the 3rd and 4th grades and sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[32,50],"class_list":["post-7009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-culture","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}