Please tell me.. because I forget..

[alaskyn66]

Why our jails are air conditioned... but our schools are not.

... I'll find the link in a bit .. but we spend three times as much on convicts as we do on our children.

Edit: here's one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/educ...education/

[Lee M-S]

maybe there are three times as many convicts as schoolchildren.

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[Guest]

Its TMT money keeping them comfortable instead of up the Mountain.

or we just did not get done with all those new schools yet right K ?

could be worse https://prideandpolitics.files.wordpress...gure-3.png

[alaskyn66]

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Originally posted by Lee M-S

maybe there are three times as many convicts as schoolchildren.

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Wat.. so the pedos and wife beaters deserve air conditioning but our preschoolers and up don't?

..Bad boys,Bad boys what we gonna do...let ya out on bail for a buck or two...

[Kapoho Joe]

There is money to made locking up convicts, not so much with educating children. The teachers union may be powerful, but they will never be prison lobby powerful.

[opihikao]

And...our keiki have no lunch at school because "they run out", and then go back to class, and sweat in unacceptable heat while trying to get an education. OMG. [!]

Can more than one of us write to the State/Governor (forget the Board of Education; they are useless) to get some support for our keiki? Please and thank you. Yes, I already addressed our "elected officials", to no avail...yet.

BTW, our kids in Puna are the ones starving (some of our keiki in Puna only eat at school; that is their meal for the day. Can you imagine???), and being subject to unbearable heat, along with many others in our island communities, and across this "great State".

We need to correct this horrible situation. Thank you, alaskyn66, for this topic.

JMO.

P.S. KapohoJoe, no truer words were spoken. Hewa.

[Guest]

Opihikao,

Letters are not worth the match to burn them, buy fans or standing AC and give to school. If you have kids, talk to them about they classmates, find out who needs and then just hand the children stuff or drop with the one picking them up. No talk, no shame, just help and smile. That is what I do + bring more on holidays whenever I can.

ETA, don't forget teachers. Even words make they day.

[Tink]

I feel that the way prisons are set up, it is an "attractive nuisance" , as they are often better than the surroundings they are used to. If they are supposed to be punished, why do they get the luxuries they can't get when free?
Prisons and schools are overseen by the gummit, so why do they not see the priority for comfort and health is for our Keiki, our future, and not for somebody that got a slap on the wrist, and gets to live in luxury with a/c, their own bed, and three meals a day.

Community begins with Aloha

[Guest]

"for somebody that got a slap on the wrist, and gets to live in luxury with a/c, their own bed, and three meals a day."

Glad I don't have teenagers yet. peace tink : )

[kalakoa]

Prisons and schools are overseen by the gummit

Schools were originally designed to train children for factory jobs.

Those jobs are long gone, but the design hasn't been reconsidered.