04-08-2015, 05:50 AM
quote:I call BS on this.
Originally posted by gypsy69
My real point is that the keiki graduating from some of these Public schools like Pahoa are not ready to be successful in college if they even can go. They have plenty of catch up learning with the computers and lesson work that needs to he done to adjust in college, makes it difficult for some keiki.
I have known many kids who graduated from Pahoa who got full ride scholarships from good universities on the mainland and did just fine. In fact, some of them got the scholarships because they graduated from what is called a "disadvantaged" community due to the poverty and isolation of Puna.
As far as having to have AC goes, I started school every year in August in 90+ degree heat and very high humidity that lasted until October. I never went to an air conditioned school, it was hot and sweaty and we still managed to learn, just like generations of kids did for all those years before central AC became the norm.