Moving to Hilo some questions (Ewa Beach, Waimea: home, construction, best school districts)

[Kennelly]

What school is she in now ? We a looking at waiakea over Hilo highschool.
Puna is where I would like to live but going to rent
For 3 years in Hilo because the school in puna from
What I have read sofare not very good .

[davephan]

That's a sad story about the education system in Hawaii, and a sad commentary about racial discrimination. Maybe the solution is the Internet, to outsource education in Hawaii. If the education system in Hawaii has failed miserably, then better education could be found on the Internet. Check out Khan Academy, Open CourseWare, OCW. MIT university and other colleges have videos of entire college courses. There are other educational resources on the Internet too, some offer college credit. At some point, the people that control the educational system that have miserably failed need to be fired and replaced with people that are competent. If the system is beyond any hope of repair, then you have to replace the failed education system yourself. An Internet based education system is probably your best option.

[terracore]

When you get here, get a PO Box and an apartment near the school you want your children to go to. After you register for school, they would never know if you moved somewhere else unless you told them. Keep the PO box for school correspondence until they have graduated.

[Kennelly]

That might be a option. Who knows might love Hilo and stay.
All will depend on our jobs as to where we can afford to buy a house.
Only time will tell.

[CyberCity]

Originally Posted by terracore

When you get here, get a PO Box and an apartment near the school you want your children to go to. After you register for school, they would never know if you moved somewhere else unless you told them. Keep the PO box for school correspondence until they have graduated.

Basing the educational stability upon a lie is really not a very reliable method to getting the best education possible for your child. I suppose you might hide your actual residential location if the student never had a friend visit, did not join sports where there might be carpooling, never used a land-line phone number, wanted to lie about the physical address in the case of emergency (card on file at the school), trusted that an angry friend or angry friend's parent would not expose the lie, didn't use FB where photos of home life might be posted, were not going to be applying for college where a physical address is required to establish residency, etc etc. Personally, I'd never set my child up for such a stressful existence as hiding a lie.

[Kennelly]

I know I would not do that to keep my kid in a better school. Honesty is my way of life.
How could a person keep up a lie that long .

[CyberCity]

Originally Posted by Kennelly

I know I would not do that to keep my kid in a better school. Honesty is my way of life. How could a person keep up a lie that long .

We think the same on this.

[terracore]

I wasn't suggesting any lies at all. Nor hiding FB posts etc. What I said is, if you move, don't tell them. They don't ask you to tell them so there is no need to lie.

They invented the game of school inequality, not me. Play the game by their rules which is, once you're in the school you're in the school.

[terracore]

Perhaps my daughter's teacher is too busy trying to win "Maui's hottest school teacher contest" to have enough time to spend teaching Puna kids:

http://www.dajam983.com/common/more.php?m=47&ref=11

Full disclosure: Her teacher is not listed as one of the contestants. But then again, how do we know those are real names (or real teachers).

[CyberCity]

Originally Posted by terracore

I wasn't suggesting any lies at all. Nor hiding FB posts etc. What I said is, if you move, don't tell them. They don't ask you to tell them so there is no need to lie.
Seriously? When it is required to inform the school your home address in order to qualify to attend that school, and you move out of the school's area, and you fail to inform the school, that is not a lie??

They invented the game of school inequality, not me. Play the game by their rules which is, once you're in the school you're in the school.
Call it an "invention" if you want, or check the ratings, records, test scores, etc through the DOE and BOE, and outside resources, and then try to prove that there is not an inequality of schools and within Hawaii's educational system. Which is why it is so important for a parent to take into consideration the school choices before they move into a certain location.

We definitely have different opinions about these topics. Luckily here on C_D, it is up to each reader to do their own research, check the source of the information and what experience is behind it, and make their own decisions.