03-02-2010, 08:58 AM
I teach at a Hilo charter school where new students seem to welcomed, but they almost all head back for the mainland as soon as they graduate. Many of our students are from Puna.
As someone who was uprooted during high school by my parents I can attest to how hard it can be on a kid. I really wish they had had the patience to just wait a few years to start that stage of their lives instead of ruining my high school experience and forcing me to try to integrate into a highly insular local culture very unlike the one I was raised in. That was really hard, but the differences were nothing compared to the differences between Hawaii and the Mainland.
Carol
As someone who was uprooted during high school by my parents I can attest to how hard it can be on a kid. I really wish they had had the patience to just wait a few years to start that stage of their lives instead of ruining my high school experience and forcing me to try to integrate into a highly insular local culture very unlike the one I was raised in. That was really hard, but the differences were nothing compared to the differences between Hawaii and the Mainland.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb