Lockdown at pahoa high AGAIN.

[Guest]

Couldn't have wrote the truth any better than that punatic007, mahalo. Where is the like button?

[shockwave rider]

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Originally posted by Punatic007

It would be nice if the King Kam schools spent less on equipment and fancy campuses and more on including all the children of Hawaii as the queen set it up in the first place. She was no racist, married to a caucasian, the kingdom was mixed race. Only a handful of the polynesian elite make it in? What a travesty to have turned it into an overly selective and racial quotient based school while Hawaiian children of all racial backgrounds are subjected to an unsafe hostile campus in Pahoa.

As stunningly beautiful and affordable at it is here in Puna, it's almost equally inept and corrupt.

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The state of Hawaii's schools is in part an unintended consequence of having the Kamehameha schools siphon off the families who would be fighting for a better education for their kids. If those families were sending their kids to public schools we would have a very different school system in this state.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

The state of Hawaii's schools is in part an unintended consequence of having the Kamehameha schools siphon off the families who would be fighting for a better education for their kids.

Perhaps a lesson not lost on OHA, DHHL, Hawaiian Kingdom, Hawaiian Nation, and the Nai Aupuni election organizers who extract support for sovereignty before voters can take part in their election.

Then a select few based on their heritage (50%? 75%? 100%? blood quantum), vote and eventually become a part of the new Hawaiian government, get their land, build and work in their businesses (casinos?) while the unqualified Hawaiians are left to fend on the benefits of life in the US of A.

[ironyak]

Originally posted by Punatic007
It would be nice if the King Kam schools spent less on equipment and fancy campuses and more on including all the children of Hawaii as the queen set it up in the first place. She was no racist, married to a caucasian, the kingdom was mixed race.

While the Bishop Estate/Kam Schools has repeatedly been criticized for not spending more of the trust improving student capacity, the will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop (never Queen right, by her own refusal?) makes it clear for the schools to be "giving the preference to Hawaiians of pure or part aboriginal blood."

http://archives.starbulletin.com/97/08/1...tory2.html

This policy has been repeatedly upheld in the courts, although may come under new scrutiny if the Supreme Court reduces its support for affirmative action programs.

[Chunkster]

A friend who worked at Kam Schools for many years told me on her retirement that the purpose of that noble institution was to make sure that the current group of Hawaiian elite families remained the elites in perpetuity. A few years ago, Kam paid a Caucasian boy several million dollars to drop a suit that was headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Their biggest worry was that they might be forced to give up their tax exempt status to remain racially exclusive. I'm surprised that another suit has not been launched, if for no other reason than to try for another huge payday.

Meanwhile, I agree that the public schools have Kam as a useful pressure release valve.

[Guest]

This years best and brightest from pahoa high may have it tougher than ever this year as the pahoa counsler may be quiting? Some seniors who attend pahoa high who are hoping to go to college next year are now stressing about the first semester grade transferring process( counsler responsibility). Let's hope the few who have worked hard for many years in hopes to go to college, still get an opportunity to do so. Sure hope the DOE looks into these troubling occurances at pahoa high and can make sure this years graduating class(keiki) from pahoa high is getting proper help to further their education.
Several police officers were at the pahoa school yet again today, the extra police presence can't be cheap.

[terracore]

My daughter's experience was that most of the good or interested teachers were in a revolving door. They came from the mainland for the experience, got quickly disillusioned with the system, administration, paying for needed classroom things with their own money, and making less than a burger flipper in Seattle. Most of the kids had no interest in learning. Many of her classmates were pregnant, others already had a kid, a few were pregnant with their second kid, and at least one of her friends had two kids already. This was a huge culture shock for her, coming from a school district where teen pregnancy was nearly invisible. Some of the kids REALLY wanted to learn and succeed and had every possible disadvantage. She knew several students who had no way to get to school except for a combination of hitchhiking and walking up to 15 miles. And you know the roads around here... not exactly pedestrian friendly.

A friend of mine had two kids in Pahoa high school and found out that some of the kids that had truancy and tardiness problems was because their families either didn't have the money or didn't want to spend the money on the required school uniform (a T-shirt), so the kids were dealing with it themselves by borrowing T-shirts from other students. If something happened like the loaning kid forgot to bring the T-shirt in that day, the borrowing kid didn't go to school that day. When my friend's wife found out about it she made it her personal quest to find these kids and buy them a T-shirt. When it was all said and done, it only cost her about $70. It only cost seventy dollars to fix this specific truancy / tardiness problem. Unreal.

[Kapoho Joe]

Well seeing as how you are a parent there Gip-Sea, I trust you are doing more than posting on PW...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

If... the loaning kid forgot to bring the T-shirt in that day, the borrowing kid didn't go to school that day

Pahoa Elementary has a fund to help provide their kids with rubber slippers should they come to school barefoot.
Now I realize shoes are required for a child's safety, and the t-shirts are meant to minimize the cost of a students wardrobe, but I still can't help imagining a sign at the school entrance:

NO SHIRT
NO SHOES
NO SCHOOL

[leilanidude]

The t-shirts are $8