A more positive view of our youth.

[Devany]

Charter Schools are a great idea and Carol's is an example of a fine one. I think she will also tell you that it takes a lot of community support because they are not "given" a lot of the infrastructure that our regular public schools get. Things like Libraries, Labs and such all have to be created by the school.

I enjoy seeing the young Connections kids at the Farmer's Market every Wednesday, what a great way to teach these kids about living sustainably and what grows here. I have a friend whose son went to school there till he reached high school and it was ideal for him as they moved here when he was 10 years old. He is in the top of his graduating class at Hilo High and still has many close friends from his time at Connections.

Rusty, I guess we need a pipeline here so we could keep building schools! That is a great concept though. Here private schools are also very much the option. We have friends who both work in Hilo who moved to Waimea so that there kids could attend HPA. Their commutes are ridiculous, but they wanted to give their kids that kind of education.

Another friend who moved here from the mainland ended up living in Honoka'a vs. Maui because they wanted their kids to go to the Parker School in Waimea.

Lots of decisions are based on the schools. It is such a key thing in a child's life and kids are all different, others bloom in a homeschool environment.

Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

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