10-31-2011, 12:36 PM
While you probably don't want to live in Waikoloa, I can share that Waikoloa Elementary and Intermediate school is a wonderful public school. The student body is a very diverse mix, so that there is no real ethnic minority there. All the children receive Native Hawaiian cultural education as part of their curriculum, and demonstrate it at the annual Ho'olaulea at the end of the school year.
I have had a fair amount of involvement with that school, and praise it. The problem there is that upon reaching high school age, the public high school is Kealakehe, and I have nothing good to say about that.
I think it depends on the child whether the home environment is going to fully neutralize the peer environment. With some children, if the home standards are too different, they will rebel against the home as being too fuddyduddy or two restrictive. (I did.)
I put in a caution about moving kids in part because my 40 year old kids have still never let me hear the end of it for the specific moves that were difficult for them because it threw them into a social culture they really did not care for.
Work it so that the kid begs to move here; then if it doesn't work out for them it is not your fault. [
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I have had a fair amount of involvement with that school, and praise it. The problem there is that upon reaching high school age, the public high school is Kealakehe, and I have nothing good to say about that.
I think it depends on the child whether the home environment is going to fully neutralize the peer environment. With some children, if the home standards are too different, they will rebel against the home as being too fuddyduddy or two restrictive. (I did.)
I put in a caution about moving kids in part because my 40 year old kids have still never let me hear the end of it for the specific moves that were difficult for them because it threw them into a social culture they really did not care for.
Work it so that the kid begs to move here; then if it doesn't work out for them it is not your fault. [
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