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Hawaii Public Schools & Teacher Salaries
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"being a devils advocate .....would the inverse hold true for Maui where the income demographics are the opposite of the Big Island?"

I love the concept of the position of the devil's advocate: (wiki)

"Origin and history

During the canonization process employed by the Roman Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith (Latin: promotor fidei), popularly known as the Devil's advocate (Latin: advocatus diaboli), was a canon lawyer appointed by Church authorities to argue against the canonization of a candidate.[3] It was this person’s job to take a skeptical view of the candidate's character, to look for holes in the evidence, to argue that any miracles attributed to the candidate were fraudulent, and so on. The Devil's advocate opposed God's advocate (Latin: advocatus Dei; also known as the Promoter of the Cause), whose task was to make the argument in favor of canonization. During the investigation of a cause, this task is now performed by the Promoter of Justice (promotor iustitiae), who is in charge of examining the accuracy of the inquiry on the saintliness of the candidate.[4] The Promoter of the Faith remains a figure in the Congregation of the Causes of Saints and is also known as the Prelate Theologian.[5]

The office was established in 1587 during the reign of Pope Sixtus V. The first formal mention of such an officer is found in the canonization of St. Lawrence Justinian under Pope Leo X (1513–21).[6] Pope John Paul II reduced the power and changed the role of the office in 1983.[7] This reform changed the canonization process considerably, helping John Paul II to usher in an unprecedented number of elevations: nearly 500 individuals were canonized and over 1,300 were beatified during his tenure as Pope as compared to only 98 canonizations by all his 20th-century predecessors. In cases of controversy the Vatican may still seek to informally solicit the testimony of critics of a candidate for canonization."


But to get back to your question, when my daughter was a student at Keaau HS, the only calculus course available to her was via Skype with the Maui class. I don't know if that has to do with economics, population, or some other reason, but the Skype thing didn't work out for her because it was like watching a recording of a HS calculus course on a crappy internet connection. She eventually got permission from the school to learn calculus from watching youtube... we joked about getting a bumper sticker that said "Hawaii County Public Schools: Almost as good as Youtube"

Your tax dollars at work.

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RE: Hawaii Public Schools & Teacher Salaries - by terracore - 12-03-2017, 10:08 AM

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