10-14-2007, 11:52 AM
Do the schools in East Hawai`i have the infamous "Kill a Haole" day? And I thought Kea`au was the good school district in Puna?
I sure wouldn't want a good teacher to not come here, but neither would I want to see anyone come and be unhappy.
I think good teachers are saintlike beings possessed of patience I could not imagine.
People sometimes ask me why I don't try teaching junior high or high school because I have the educational qualification.
Um, because it's my idea of what hell might be like? It takes more than education to make a good teacher, for sure.
Re the public vs private -- I have a friend who was willing to spend an ungodly amount on tuition to send her kids to HPA after Kona schools had them headed for a life of delinquency. I think it's roughly 15,000 a year per kid, and she's not wealthy. Neither is she a snob, and her kids are not haole. (hapa) Just a mother feeling that her kids were lost in a system. She is not a big fan of the "no child left behind" policy and thinks it creates problems rather than helping.
I don't understand how this program works exactly, but I know that as an intelligent parent she thought the implementation is making a mess of things.
I sure wouldn't want a good teacher to not come here, but neither would I want to see anyone come and be unhappy.
I think good teachers are saintlike beings possessed of patience I could not imagine.
People sometimes ask me why I don't try teaching junior high or high school because I have the educational qualification.
Um, because it's my idea of what hell might be like? It takes more than education to make a good teacher, for sure.
Re the public vs private -- I have a friend who was willing to spend an ungodly amount on tuition to send her kids to HPA after Kona schools had them headed for a life of delinquency. I think it's roughly 15,000 a year per kid, and she's not wealthy. Neither is she a snob, and her kids are not haole. (hapa) Just a mother feeling that her kids were lost in a system. She is not a big fan of the "no child left behind" policy and thinks it creates problems rather than helping.
I don't understand how this program works exactly, but I know that as an intelligent parent she thought the implementation is making a mess of things.