Hawaiian Grade School Influenced Young Obama

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October 29, 2008

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama began his political career in Illinois, but his formative years were spent in Hawaii.

As a boy and a teenager, he was a student and star basketball player at Punahou School in Honolulu, Sacramento television news station KCRA reported.

Built in the 1800s, it is billed as the largest private school in the United States for kindergarten through 12th grade. The school has about 3,700 students. Tuition today is $16,765 per year.

Congregationalist missionaries founded Punahou in the 1850s; community service has always been a bedrock of the school.

The Luke Center for Public Service is where students at the school learn to serve a larger purpose.

Obama developed that passion at the campus, as well as his jump shot.


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1. Really nice story

I especially liked this part:

"students at the school learn to serve a larger purpose"

I wish it were that way at ALL schools.