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13 million? Thir-teen mil-lion?
That's more than 4 times the entire annual HAAS Charter School budget!
I'm sure it will be a wildly successful program. Those three behavioral health specialists will surely eradicate drugs among Puna/Kau's youth.
$13,000,000? That's likely over 200 teachers' salaries with benefits. I would love to see how that much money is spent. I'm hoping for some anti-drug poetry contests, and anti-drug poster contests, and anti-drug roadside sign waving. Hopefully the kids who change their habits can grow up and get a job writing well-written articles like that for TV news departments. Wowser.
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Hopefully the kids who change their habits can grow up and get a job writing well-written articles like that for TV news departments. Wowser.
An example of journalism at KHON, a major news outlet in Hawaii. Do you think you would read a news story like that from WNBC-TV in New York? Or even KFYR-TV in Bismarck, North Dakota?
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Kirt - As HAAS is in the same complex as Pahoa & Keaau High, shouldn't some of that $13 million end up benefiting those students as well?
BTW, congrats to HAAS on being the top ranked high school on the island from the latest Strive HI results. At least someone is doing their part to buck the "dumbest state" label and raise the average for the rest of us!
http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/loc...erformance
Small charter schools put up the biggest index scores among the island’s high schools, with Hawaii Academy of Arts and Science in Pahoa taking the top spot, with 270 points out of 400.
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Good article ironyak, glad to see HAAS on the list as a top ranked school. Last year some of their students worked in conjunction with HELCO to come up with a plan to insulate the power company's wood electric poles from the heat of the lava flow. Seems the efforts of their students continues.
I found this quote interesting:
De Silva’s success is all the more impressive when one considers the other top five schools are all on Oahu, said Principal Dennis O’Brien.
"They have an advantage because they’re closer to funding sources and business partners,” he said.
It seems our schools are at a financial disadvantage being so far away from additional sources of income to supplement their budgets. If only a large scientific endeavor, like a telescope for instance, would offer assistance to improve our island schools, which clearly can use the extra help. Only the extremely short sighted, or self centered locked in their own personal agenda, would turn down money that's been offered to the keiki of this island.
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Actually, many UHH computer science grads go on to fairly significant jobs -- on the mainland. Their pharmacy school is also producing grads to the doctorate level and they find fairly significant jobs -- on the mainland.
Barack Obama is a local and went on to a fairly significant job -- on the mainland.
Anybody learning a lesson there?
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+1 Jeffhale. I agree, ignorant is a better word than stupid. Thanks for pointing that out. "Hawaii, the most Ignorant State" sounds good to me.
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I grew up in one of the most economically depressed parts of the the country. "We used to build Cars" Michigan, just North of Detroit. They had stopped building car parts in my neck of the woods by the time I was born. Teenage pregnancy, poverty, violence, crime, gangs, and a life on Federal/State subsistence was what awaited recent grads of my HS. Just over half of those I started 9th grade with graduated.
Did my surroundings make it harder to succeed? Absolutely! Is it possible? Absolutely!
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Any State that would have so much trouble building a state of the art telescope is a dumb state.
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lol John, aren't those telescope builders mostly from out of state? Our D.O.E. does need any help it can get. I seem to remember a similar poll taken 35 years ago when I was in the public school system here. I think we were all the way at the bottom then too or near bottom. Perhaps we beat out Mississippi or Alabama back then. Yay we can claim the stupid prize all to ourselves now.
