Ruth Ann Babas teaches her third-grade music class at Island Pacific Academy in Kapolei. Said Keri Magaoay of Makakilo, who now has four children enrolled at the school, "The curriculum is challenging and it's fun. They have full art classes, music, foreign language, PE."
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