06-16-2015, 12:23 PM
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Originally posted by Kapoho Joe
There is no sidewalk from the Pahoa schools down Highway 132 to Nanavale where you can see kids walking the shoulder to go home everyday and yet there is no clamor for sidewalks down 132. A few soccer moms have a hard time dropping off and picking up their kids and all of a sudden it's an emergency!
What insider knowledge are you using to call the HAAS parents "a few soccer moms"? Or are you just grasping at straws to construct an insult?
Virtually ALL of Puna's kids are underserved in terms of safe ways to get to and from school: kids are waiting in the pitch dark for busses on subdivision roads with no shoulders, there are no sidewalks between the schools and the subdivisions within walking distance, and no covered or lit bus stops. There is a ton of federal money on the table to solve some of these problems and the state government is refusing to let these funds be spent on our students. Comparing one underserved group with another to see who is getting screwed the worse is not the way to solve these problems, we need to kick some butt to make sure all our kids have a safe way to get to school every single day, not snipe at anyone who takes the initiative to try and make it better for at least some of our kids.