Big Island Charter schools possible closure

[Beachboy]

Ah yes Menehune, nothing like Joni Mitchell in the morning! That song was sooooo awesome, and yes so fitting to the circumstances we find WOL in.

I'd like to know from the people who have posted here on this thread what your stake is in all of this bruhaha. Is your home near one of the campuses in HPP? Or are you tied to the other charter school in the park...you know, the other one that cost money to attend?

I keep hearing people say how thoughtless WOL was to enroll students into their schools that were not safe to begin with?!? [:0] Well. let me be the first to say my 9yr old attends WOL school, and I can only speak for one campus. The campus/house my son attends is a brand new house! I feel it's totally safe to drop my son off daily there. Hell, I have friends who houses in Puna are far less secure than my boy's school. This really does appear to mostly be a problem[s] that MWS has created for WOL!!

Before putting my son in WOL, he attended Kea'au Elementary School. Kea'au Elementary School is by far the worse school anyone in my family has ever attended in the 50th state! To go from the best school in the state(Liholiho Elementary School) to the worst (Kea'au Elementary School) was quite a wake up call! I was feeling extremely guilty over it too. It was the direct result of me moving my family from Oahu to Puna...then comes along WOL!!! I'm given another chance to get the situation right for my son[s],and I take full advantage of it too. Sure, there are problems within the walls of WOL, but don't all school come with growing pains?

I think any parent or adult who feels the need to get into the day to day affairs of WOL should either have child attending there, or live on the same street as one of their two campuses in HPP. Otherwise they should mind their own business! There is just to much at stake here for a few "armchair quarterbacks", to ad there venomous 2 cents to this very touchy subject!

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