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# Santa Monica ‘S’ saved teacher’s job
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-s-saved-teachers-job-editor/
- Published: 2003-11-13T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:14:13.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Malibu, #archive-import

As parents of two children who are in the Santa Monica-Malibu school district, my husband and I would like to lend our voices to those giving thanks to the members of the community and the City Council who rallied to support public education this past spring. With the passage of Measure S and the city’s increased contribution to the schools, both of our children, who have been in the Santa Monica-Malibu district since kindergarten, are continuing to reap the benefits bestowed by an exceptionally fine school district.

In particular, we are thankful that teachers who had been pink-slipped were retained. One case in point at Lincoln Middle School, where our daughter is a Seventh grader, is that of Ron Vieira, a humanities and French teacher, who relocated here from Canada. On the day escrow closed on Ron’s new house, he received his pink slip. Fortunately for all concerned, Ron has been retained. He has been instrumental in bringing a new pilot program of student-led conferences to Lincoln, where students invite their parents to school and lead a conference in which the students evaluate their progress, set goals and develop strategies for themselves. Ron initiated this program at Lincoln based upon its success at his former school district in Canada where he had seven year’s experience with the program and found that it fostered increased

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 13, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/111303.pdf?ref=smdp.com)