09-19-2019, 07:47 AM
From bivn today.
Last week, at a symposium on the TMT, several faculty members discussed why Hawaiians are underrepresented in the field of physics and astronomy. A senior, tenured pro-TMT physics professor publicly responded, “We know that the Kam Schools are academically unsuccessful…a student that we have here who is working on his Master’s and is a physics teacher at Kam Schools, he told me that he had to graduate people in physics that couldn’t even read.” A Hawaiian professor (and graduate of the Kamehameha Schools) in the audience told the physics professor his statement was unfounded and racist. The physics professor responded, “I don’t care.” Recordings of the confrontation were shared with the President and UH administrators.
So whats the truith? How many uh incoming student grads from Kam schools do well on proficiency exams for entry into uh?
Knowing the education my fairly intelegent son got. Im not surprised that a physics student could not read well.
Wish i could have afforded to home school him 20 yrs ago.
If no one is educated locally , tmt wh8ch will be built period, they will have to go offshore to find talented help.
Maybe thats why tmt has funded 1.0 million a year to stem?
Aloha
HPP
Last week, at a symposium on the TMT, several faculty members discussed why Hawaiians are underrepresented in the field of physics and astronomy. A senior, tenured pro-TMT physics professor publicly responded, “We know that the Kam Schools are academically unsuccessful…a student that we have here who is working on his Master’s and is a physics teacher at Kam Schools, he told me that he had to graduate people in physics that couldn’t even read.” A Hawaiian professor (and graduate of the Kamehameha Schools) in the audience told the physics professor his statement was unfounded and racist. The physics professor responded, “I don’t care.” Recordings of the confrontation were shared with the President and UH administrators.
So whats the truith? How many uh incoming student grads from Kam schools do well on proficiency exams for entry into uh?
Knowing the education my fairly intelegent son got. Im not surprised that a physics student could not read well.
Wish i could have afforded to home school him 20 yrs ago.
If no one is educated locally , tmt wh8ch will be built period, they will have to go offshore to find talented help.
Maybe thats why tmt has funded 1.0 million a year to stem?
Aloha
HPP
HPP