Kamehameha program expects to dole out $47M

[idiotic]

this is a horrible idea. rather than taking actions which will broadly effect hawaiians, you are taking a select handful and helping them and leaving the rest to rot. it is the same failed policy that led to teh building of two neighbor island campuses.

[aloha]

idiotic wrote:

this is a horrible idea. rather than taking actions which will broadly effect hawaiians, you are taking a select handful and helping them and leaving the rest to rot. it is the same failed policy that led to teh building of two neighbor island campuses.

you need to get a life. If you feel the rest of the children will rot then you are very sad yourself. It is not Kamehameha's problem to take care of anyone's children it starts in the home with the parents and there upbringing. To be a recipient of the Pauahi legacy then you are lucky if not this year there is the next. If the trust wasn't here who would you blame then......

[aloha]

People need to get off what is going on with Kamehameha Schools, funding and all and go to the source.... The state, the Government. Stop taking care of people far away, Iran, Iraq, and whomever else and look in there own front door. Forward your anger and thoughts to them. This is everyday wake up focus ......

[Concerned Citizen]

A blessing to 240 children and their families. Mahalo Kamehameha Schools!

[Displaced Hawaiian]

Kamehameha is giving these children an education. Not a free car, or a new home or a bunch of cash to spend as they want. It would be great if they could help everyone in the islands who wanted a private school education but could not afford it. Obviously that is not possible. So lets be grateful that Kamehameha is continuing the legacy of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop in educating young Hawaiians.

[JMiguel]

How many of these kids will be able to pass the private schools admissions tests?
JMiguel

[JMiguel]

That's it? Three million a year for 15 years? What about the thousands of Native Hawaiian children throughout the state who don't get accepted at Kamehameha Schools many who live below the poverty line or on the beach?
This is the richest private school in the world with probably $15,000,000,000 in its endowment. The school brings in over $1,000,000,000 a year. Do you have any idea how much money that is?(Much of it just sits in a bank.) Build some preschools and K-12 schools or provide every Native Hawaiian child with a laptop computer and let them take their classes online. Aren't they embarrassed only spending three million dollars a year with so much money in their bank account? I wonder how the Hawaiians kids and their parents who live on the beach feel? Does KS even care about the poverty kids? This is an insult to the Hawaiian people and their children.
JMiguel

[kanuman]

Mahalo Nui to Kamehameha School. What a wonderful opportunity for the Native Hawaiian children. Princess Pauahi Bishop would be very proud. Oh yeh! i think we all have a good idea who is behind the comments of idiotic and clubs808

[JMiguel]

What do the Bishop Estate Trustees do?
JMiguel

[JMiguel]

Those of you who think that Kamehameha Schools is helping Hawaiians who live below the poverty line should go visit one of our prisons. Most of those Native Hawaiians are functionally illiterate.(Thirty percent of all Hawaiian adults are functionally illiterate.) But just go ahead Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate...just keep sitting on top of your multi- billion dollar endowment...it's doing fine sitting in the bank. Whoops I forgot...Kamehameha is spending three million a year to send how many Hawaiian kids to private schools throughout Hawai'i. They don't even have a school on Kaua'i. Do they think there aren't enough Hawaiians in "The Separate Kingdom"? It ain't the middleclass Hawaiians who need Kamehameha's help...it's the poverty Hawaiians...stupid. They're the ones who are filling up our prisons...or don't have jobs on the outside. What does OHA say about this predicament?

JMiguel

[Palawalika]

We need to continue the ethics of everyting given to us. We have an "American" right to be discriminatory in education, and in other areas too. Such, as no property taxes, etc in the Hawaiian Homelands, which makes other outside propety owners pay our way for us in city services, through their property taxes.......good job.....let's continue thinking of ways to keep taking advantage of others.

[Kagagagagaga]

I agree wtih Palawalika.......let's gagagaga lagagagga gagagagaga.........

[JMiguel]

Just put the kids in an online eSchool...it's more interesting and much more effective/efficient than brick & mortar schools where teachers stand in front of a chalkboard lecturing with their vocal chords all day long. In 10 years almost everyone will be taking their classes online. The first major technological improvement in schools since cavemen teachers starting drawing on their cave walls. Kids have never learned much of anything in brick and mortar schools anyway. And I'm not kidding...you have always been able to get all the information/education you wanted by reading books...and now we have the Internet. BTW...most teachers do not use the multimedia features of the Internet to help convey information in their classrooms. I guess they are imbeciles.
JMiguel

[JMiguel]

I have friends who live on the northshore of a neighbor island where almost all the kids (on the northshore) take their courses online and love it. Why do we need brick and mortar schools in 2008? Why doesn't Kamehameha just give all Hawaiian students in the state a $100 laptop and plug them in? I suppose there are many non-Hawaiian poverty kids in the state who could use a laptop as well...but let's not give them one because they are not Hawaiian...okay?(NOTE: There is a billionaire in Mexico who is purchasing millions of $100 laptops from MIT for poverty students in his country.) Africa, Asia and the South Pacific nations doing the same. Bishop Estate Trustees take note!
JMiguel

[kahului]

mahalo Kamehameha. education is a very powerful tool as we all strive for full recognition and restoration of a nation that was illegally overthrown by a country that was militarily more superior. you have taken a position of continuity to this view by steping up to the plate to educate the next generation. Aloha e Mahalo Pauahi, board of trustees, the ohana o Kamehameha.

[Question on Admission]

Just last year we applied for kindergarten admission to Kamehameha schools for our granddaughter. She was interviewed and was not selected. Not one word on why she was “not acceptable” for the school nothing at all. Is it any wonder we think the process is not above board? Has anyone else experienced this also? Please lets here your story.

[Hana Hou]

Corruption up at the Kapalama Heights School! Funny how you here of families with three boys in the school and some who can't any in the front door. Makes you wonder? Either their smart or your kids are dumb!

[ShoeGal]

JMiguel & friends: Before going off on another anti-Kamehameha tirade, you really ought to get your facts straight. Kamehameha helps children from all walks of life, it does not only cater to “the elite.”

Its Hi`ilani program provides prenatal & parenting classes to needy families in Hawaiian communities. KS funds need-based preschool scholarships statewide. Its literacy program helps boost literacy among public school children. Its Explorations program teaches Hawaiian culture and traditions, and its Kamehameha Scholars program provides college & career guidance to public high schoolers...ALL of this so that children can make the right choices when they grow up, and not end up in prison!

[KBoy]

If you haven't read "Broken Trust" yet, you should. Eye opening about the corruption within KSBE. And it's still going on. The state supremem court is part of it. Check it out.

[JMiguel]

DEAR SHOEGAL:
And how many poverty Native Hawaiian kids do the KSBE billions assist with the programs you mentioned below? Note that Explorations is only one week of "Hawaiian Culture and traditions". That's pretty good isn't it?
We're talking about billions of dollars that the Trustees are sitting on.
JMiguel
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ShoeGal QUOTED:
JMiguel & friends: Before going off on another anti-Kamehameha tirade, you really ought to get your facts straight. Kamehameha helps children from all walks of life, it does not only cater to “the elite.”

Its Hi`ilani program provides prenatal & parenting classes to needy families in Hawaiian communities. KS funds need-based preschool scholarships statewide. Its literacy program helps boost literacy among public school children. Its Explorations program teaches Hawaiian culture and traditions, and its Kamehameha Scholars program provides college & career guidance to public high schoolers...ALL of this so that children can make the right choices when they grow up, and not end up in prison!