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\n What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n\u201cAll of us are created uniquely, and I think our students have the opportunity to see that in life when we do days like today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rachael Rosas, Director of Curriculum and Instruction (yourcentralvalley.com)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt teaches our students how to be kind, how to be welcoming, how to be inclusive. Some kids are like, do I smile? Do I say hi? And I’m like, you do all of it. They are human beings, and each of us, regardless of their abilities, deserves dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rachael Rosas, Director of Curriculum and Instruction (yourcentralvalley.com)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe older students who have done it before are usually pretty excited because they remember how much fun they had. The younger students, especially the freshmen, are a little timid, like, they don’t know what to expect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Amanda Wilson, Math teacher (yourcentralvalley.com)<\/p>\n
The takeaway<\/p>\n
This annual event at San Joaquin Memorial High School demonstrates the school’s commitment to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment for all students, regardless of their abilities. By bringing together students with and without disabilities to participate in activities together, the school is teaching valuable lessons about kindness, acceptance, and the dignity of all people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar. 12, 2026 at 11:21pm Got story updates? Submit your updates here. \u203a San Joaquin Memorial High School…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-218426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}