My children attend a charter school in Madera and have asked me numerous times to move them to another school. You may ask why.
Because they cannot celebrate Easter, Halloween or even feel like normal kids being able to play in a band or learn instruments or really enjoy sports there. My children claim the school is boring and the work is hard; all they do every day is test, test, test. Even second and third graders find the school difficult. There are children at that school who are just mean, rude and complete bullies, and all of this is just swept under the carpet.
Uniforms are another big problem; 99 percent of the kids wear khaki pants and polo shirts but there are some cheap parents that try to buck the system and send their kids with cheap sweat pants, tee shirts, and wrong color clothes, and again it’s swept under the carpet.
Parents must also work 30 hours a semester or pay $240, or remove their children. There is no cafeteria or nurse at the school, or even a decent gym. The food is horrible, so my kids bring their own from home. My oldest daughter used to attend a charter school in Fresno, but it was a good school compared to this one. All of this I find disgusting and my children are leaving next semester.
Mike Diaz,
Madera
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Charter School
I have to object to this persons comment.. My son has been going to this school since kindergarten.. He, or we, have not had any problems, aside fromthe childish issues that we all have had since we were in school...
He has been getting excellent grades, in fact, he even has been on the honor roll quite a few times...
And since when was school supposed to be easy??? what do you learn from stuff that you already know?? Not too much... The testing, is a great thing for the school to do.. Isnt Californias grades the worst in the nation?? At least this schools is trying to be on top of that standard...
"My children claim the school is boring and the work is hard; all they do every day is test, test, test. Even second and third graders find the school difficult. There are children at that school who are just mean, rude and complete bullies, and all of this is just swept under the carpet" hmmm this sure sounds like the things i said back in my school days.. sounds about right...
"Uniforms are another big problem; 99 percent of the kids wear khaki pants and polo shirts but there are some cheap parents that try to buck the system and send their kids with cheap sweat pants, tee shirts, and wrong color clothes, and again it’s swept under the carpet." well, not all families have the money to buy namebrand clothes for a school uniform.. cmon now, were all not rich...
"Because they cannot celebrate Easter, Halloween or even feel like normal kids being able to play in a band or learn instruments or really enjoy sports there."
I almost certain that the school does celebrate each and all holiday.. Maybe they just call Halloween a Harvest Day Party or somesort... and if im correct back when I was in elementary school we didnt have sports either.. Yes we did have band but starting in 5th grade
"Parents must also work 30 hours a semester or pay $240, or remove their children. There is no cafeteria or nurse at the school, or even a decent gym. The food is horrible, so my kids bring their own from home. " 30 hours out of a whole school year, not too bad IMO... Also buying supplies for the childs class, and bringing in the receipt takes off hours, as does back to school night and other night activities.. There is a cafeteria, which is also used as a gym.. my elementary school had a bunch of picnic tables outside,, no cafeteria.. and the luches are the same lunches that all madera unified schools get.. dont like bring your own...
if you dont like the school and think the fresno one is better, then go back to the nfresno school, and dont let the door hit you in the butt on the way out!!!