School Visit Day

Today we visited Kubasaki High School to begin our school visit.  The school has about 625 students who are mostly the children of US Marines.  Kubasaki High School is part of the Okinawa District, which is a district in DoDEA.  Our accreditation team has seven members.  Jill and I are the only ones from the states.  All the other members are from other schools and districts in the Pacific.  Some are from mainland Japan, which is its own DoDEA district, one is from Guam, and one is from the Korea District.  All of those are Department of Defense districts where our US troops are stationed.

Kubaski is the oldest high school in the Pacific region.  Classes began here in the late fall of 1946, shortly after the end of World War II.  The school building currently occupied by the high school was built in 1964, and Jill and I think it's not a very nice school.  We are lucky to have the education facilities we have in Wyoming!  But even though the building needs some work, the students and staff are awesome:-)  We have enjoyed getting to meet them.