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- When we moved here
when I was 10-years-old,

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my parents bought a house

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right outside the back gate,

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and so I grew up having a lot

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of friends who were military students.

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And the base was always this, you know,

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place that everybody talked
about, but I'd never been.

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And I kind of remember
my experience coming

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to Hawaii from being in Virginia schools

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and seeing the difference
between the two very vividly

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I remember that very vividly.

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Families have a lot of
concerns about the quality

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of education in Hawaii,

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and my parents were told those same rumors

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when they moved us here.

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So, it's important that I balance

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out the information I'm giving them

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with what's really
happening in the schools

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with maybe the picture that's been painted

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of what coming to school
in Hawaii is like.

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We really don't know what a school is like

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until you have someone who may
have some inside information,

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and so I try to provide that
information to the families.

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