08-07-2013, 01:41 AM
The last thing anyone could correctly label me is a "Teapublican" but this still has no direct connection to sequestration. HAAS families paid for those seats, if anything they were helping cover the DOE's costs for transporting the Pahoa students. This was also a change in policy made by the part of the organization that is not supposed to make or change policy, and they did so without the policy makers (the Board of Education) knowing anything about it. Education systems all over the country are being impacted by sequestration, but where the resulting cuts are made, and how the cuts are communicated to those impacted are locally made decisions, except in Hawaii where the DOE is run out of Oahu by what is probably the least transparent organization in the State government. Both Public Charter Schools and the Neighbor Islands are unimportant to the Oahu centric DOE, so no effort was made to minimize the impact of poor decision making. In fact no effort was even made to effectively communicate the decision in a timely fashion, even when staff at HAAS were actively seeking out that information.
The DOE changed their minds and are going to continue to let special needs students who receive curb to curb services ride the bus, everyone else is on their own.
It is not a "good old boy conspiracy hallucination" to acknowledge the reality of where power is balanced in this state. The population, money and power are all centered on Oahu and anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves.
Carol
edited to fix a silly typo
The DOE changed their minds and are going to continue to let special needs students who receive curb to curb services ride the bus, everyone else is on their own.
It is not a "good old boy conspiracy hallucination" to acknowledge the reality of where power is balanced in this state. The population, money and power are all centered on Oahu and anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves.
Carol
edited to fix a silly typo
Carol
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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