Aug. 31, 2009
No Better Time
There is no better time to homeschool on Guam than now. All you have to do is pick up a copy of Guam's daily newspaper the Pacific Daily News and you will read another story on what is happening with public schools on Guam.
Last week 33 schools were shut down for two days because of an issue with food services for the cafeterias. With no food being served, the children could not attend. After all (according to the news) the meals these children get at a school may be the only meals they get! I find that very incomprehensible to understand. Back when I went to school, we didn't even have cafeterias. We had lunchrooms....places where children could eat the lunches brought from home. No food was served. It never occurred to me until arriving on Guam that schools would or could provide lunch for the children. But apparently this has been a practice in place for years.
After researching I found that the US does have a National Lunch program for schools. A federally funded program. So why is it that Guam can't manage to feed the kids? It is all about procurement procedures. The AG's office decided last week that the procurement for the caterers for the lunch program was not done "correctly". As a result schools were shut down until the Governor could declare a "state of emergency" and award the contract to the existing company for 30 days until new bids could be submitted. I predict that the current company will win the bid in the end. So why all the fuss?
Bottom line for me is - I'm so glad I homeschool. My kids do not have to wonder where their meals come from. I will provide them. As a parent on Guam, if my kids were in public school I would pull them out. You see, once the food issue is solved, that does not solve the other issues. Next week it could be the power or the water. Then there are shortfalls of teachers. The list goes on and on.
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Sep. 5, 2009 - Hi from Mektekt=)
You know, my husband found an article from New Zealand saying that the GPSS closed shop because they didn't pay their power bill. How NZ got that information is beyond me but I find it embarrassing that we're featured in their paper for this. It may have been both lack of electricity and food but it's all ridiculous really. I was considering putting them in the new Adacao Elementary School this year but I'm glad that I didn't.