05-10-2014, 07:00 AM
This was worse than I had thought at first for it apparently was different forms of abuse multiple times to multiple children. Very sad situation happened at HAAS school, how as a community can we learn from this?. I really hope for the kids sake that they will get some counseling if needed, for these kinds of things happening at school is also a form of bullying and can be damaging to the kids psyche.
I remember about 3 years ago I had a chance to send my oldest boy to HAAS instead of Pahoa. We all got to sit in the class for a day and watch or ask questions at that time. The kids were great, very helpful and almost seemed like adults rather than children. They did not have to raise their hand or ask to go bathroom, they just up and go. Most were doing their own things for they were allowed to go further ahead as they pleased, The teachers did not want to hold some back for others. My son was already getting strait a's and had skipped a grade so I knew he was a self learner and would be fine at HAAS. I just did not feel they had the right structure or discipline to keep him on his toes. Our move was to keep him at Pahoa and not change what was working already for him. Now he is vice president and finishing up his sophomore year, he participated in sports all three seasons and maintained his 4.0 so we could not be prouder of him. P.S. Maybe what we need out here is more consolidating of our schools and keiki on one much larger campus, rather than small spread out ones designed in the 50's?. Most problems I see at the beginning of school years are when kids from Keonipoko school in Hawaiian beaches all of a sudden have to go Pahoa(plenty fights). When we visited HAAS that day we thought it was a hoali school for almost all were, at least in this grade class. Never seen so many blonds in one classroom as long as I have lived in Hawaii. Not really for special treatment, we believe in equality and would like to see most have the same opportunities or I will always choose the harder road kind of mentality for we believe it builds character. Now we feel like we dodged two bullets in our community because we pulled our boys from the Football program that looked bad long before the problems surfaced with the missing $$150,000. AND now we somehow were able to keep our boys from this nightmare at HAAS. Really parents do need to guide, protect, and make better decisions for their children, for its not the kids faults, these are adult actions. This community does not offer many positive opportunities for our Keiki, so for this to happen at school is terrible.
I remember about 3 years ago I had a chance to send my oldest boy to HAAS instead of Pahoa. We all got to sit in the class for a day and watch or ask questions at that time. The kids were great, very helpful and almost seemed like adults rather than children. They did not have to raise their hand or ask to go bathroom, they just up and go. Most were doing their own things for they were allowed to go further ahead as they pleased, The teachers did not want to hold some back for others. My son was already getting strait a's and had skipped a grade so I knew he was a self learner and would be fine at HAAS. I just did not feel they had the right structure or discipline to keep him on his toes. Our move was to keep him at Pahoa and not change what was working already for him. Now he is vice president and finishing up his sophomore year, he participated in sports all three seasons and maintained his 4.0 so we could not be prouder of him. P.S. Maybe what we need out here is more consolidating of our schools and keiki on one much larger campus, rather than small spread out ones designed in the 50's?. Most problems I see at the beginning of school years are when kids from Keonipoko school in Hawaiian beaches all of a sudden have to go Pahoa(plenty fights). When we visited HAAS that day we thought it was a hoali school for almost all were, at least in this grade class. Never seen so many blonds in one classroom as long as I have lived in Hawaii. Not really for special treatment, we believe in equality and would like to see most have the same opportunities or I will always choose the harder road kind of mentality for we believe it builds character. Now we feel like we dodged two bullets in our community because we pulled our boys from the Football program that looked bad long before the problems surfaced with the missing $$150,000. AND now we somehow were able to keep our boys from this nightmare at HAAS. Really parents do need to guide, protect, and make better decisions for their children, for its not the kids faults, these are adult actions. This community does not offer many positive opportunities for our Keiki, so for this to happen at school is terrible.