08-21-2006, 02:45 PM
maybe it's true that my standards for what my kids could be when they grow up is high, but it should be. I strongly believe that I should try to get my kids the best most-rounded education possible. And maybe I'm being snobbish saying I don't necesarily want them to be fedex drivers. If they choose to do that anyways, that's their choice. But it sucks if that's all they can be. And educationg them in Puna isn't going to give them as many options as if they went to a good school. I want their teachers to encourage college, not be praying that they will graduate. and I want his teacher to teach them more than reading, writing and arithmatic. like geography, languages, music, sports.... Things that are not in the puna's schools budgets. And I think it's unfair to say that I could teach them everything. I have strength, but not in every topic. I can't put myself in charge of making sure they are learning in every topic. That is after all why we send our kids to school. I think it's a parents job to teach kids our morality. Let them learn reading and math at school. I'll teach my kids tolerance and love and right and wrong ... I can help them with their homework and encourage them to love to learn, but I am no teacher. Not an academic one anyways.
I have plenty of friends that went to school here. and those who care about their kids education are all trying to find ways not to make their kids go to the school they went to. now that should be telling you something. They have all kinds of stories about the things that they learned that you DON'T want your kids to learn.
I know that there are many alternative schools here and that there was that kid in your class who went to Harvard and that I can do soooo much to help educate my kids, but... there isn't really much you can say that will convince me that Puna schools don't suck. If I had decided to stay in Hawaii, my kids would probably be going to St. Joseph (of which I have only heard good thing, except for the commute thang). So I'm not leaving b/c of the schools, but I am very happy to get my son out of Pahoa E.S. And not because anything really bad happened. Just enough things to give me a flavor of what things were going to be like.
enough venting for now. just don't like people downplaying the importance of the best education you can give your kids.
aloha,
stef
I have plenty of friends that went to school here. and those who care about their kids education are all trying to find ways not to make their kids go to the school they went to. now that should be telling you something. They have all kinds of stories about the things that they learned that you DON'T want your kids to learn.
I know that there are many alternative schools here and that there was that kid in your class who went to Harvard and that I can do soooo much to help educate my kids, but... there isn't really much you can say that will convince me that Puna schools don't suck. If I had decided to stay in Hawaii, my kids would probably be going to St. Joseph (of which I have only heard good thing, except for the commute thang). So I'm not leaving b/c of the schools, but I am very happy to get my son out of Pahoa E.S. And not because anything really bad happened. Just enough things to give me a flavor of what things were going to be like.
enough venting for now. just don't like people downplaying the importance of the best education you can give your kids.
aloha,
stef