Editorial | /2008/05/17/

Kamehameha's tuition aid will further educational mission THE ISSUE Kamehameha Schools will give scholarships to students who attend other private schools.

[against a tiered sysem]

yes, and the divide between public and private education gets ever deeper. wake UP folks. one of the reason the public schools are in such a deplorable state is because we do NOT invest in the schools, and choose to send 25% of our best, smartest kids with concerned (and basically ELISTEST parents) to public schools. this policy is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

[how can you support this]

kamehamea schools should not invest in the class divide that allows that those have to continue to have and those that have not continue to have not. why not focus on education where the kids really need the money? perhaps invest in those communities with a large hawaiian population (waimanalo, waianae, molokai?)

[Purple Gecko]

Imua Kamehameha

[Giorgio]

Wow!$1.2 million a year...these guys bring in over $1,000,000,000 a year. And many financial experts say they have way more than the $9 billion that they admit to. Give us a freaking break Star-Bulletin editorial staff.(Several of the KS programs are only for one week, e.g. Explorations.) Due your due diligence...31% of Native Hawaiian adults are functionally illiterate and our prisons are jammed up with Hawaiians.
JMiguel

[Hoomau]

how can you support this wrote:

kamehamea schools should not invest in the class divide that allows that those have to continue to have and those that have not continue to have not. why not focus on education where the kids really need the money? perhaps invest in those communities with a large hawaiian population (waimanalo, waianae, molokai?)

I'm afraid you miss the point. From what I heard on the radio, a large number of the schools involved are small private schools in communities. I also understand that the scholarship priorities were for keiki from communities with largely native populations. That means that parents from these communities -- where there is greatest need, by the way -- are able to choose a school that is best for their keiki.

[Ronald]

What if the Bishop Estate Trustees purchased a laptop for all Native Hawaiian kids who live below the poverty line? And how about paying their faculty a salary comparable to the Punahou teachers salary schedule?
Ronald

[Rod]

While scholarship aid to deserving students is a step in the right direction, why can't all students currently enrolled in the Kamehameha Schools educational system be free of paying tuition costs?...It's difficult for the public to imagine that there isn't enough funds available to do this for all Hawaiian children needing an education...

[Ronald]

With an endowment worth billions of dollars why does Kamehameha Schools pay their teachers about 30% less than Punahou teachers?(I don't know what the top step is at KS but for NYC and LA City Schools it's $98,000 a year.)
Ronald

[Ronald]

Are we to understand that Kamehameha will never again build brick and mortar schools for Native Hawaiians because they know that their race-based admissions policy violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act? I don't think anyone would care about the Civil Rights Act if their (KS) schools were for kids who live below the poverty line. I am sick of seeing functionally illiterate Hawaiian adults and Native Hawaiians jamming up our prisons.
Ronald

[Purple Gecko]

maybe da Bishop estate has evolved to achieve other purposes den da princess envisioned.

[Don]

Kam School shoud build more schools instead of taking away the already competitive and tight spaces in private schools. I called the scholarship a cheap shot!

[Da Kine Brah]

Why all the help for grade school and high school only?
They should build a University that is free for Hawaiians. Why can't they think of that?
Pretty slow, huh????

[When will it end]

This message was sent to Honoulu Advertiser back in 2005. What has changed with Farrington Highway since then?
The senseless deaths, which are a frequent occurrence on Farrington Highway, should have sent signals to the powers that be of the City & County of Hawaii, besides the State. There are entirely to many accidents on Farrington Highway and something should be done to reduce the amount of accidents involving our youth in our beautiful community of Waianae.
I have lived in Hawaii for a period of sixteen years, mostly in the Kaneohe or Windward side of the island. We moved to Waianae in the fall of 2005 and I never saw so much neglect of a community by its elected government officials.
The government can build million dollar walls, which read Nuuanu, continuously waste the taxpayer’s money on Kalanianaole Highway over the last decade and knowingly, willingly and negligently do nothing about the fatal Highway know as Farrington. When is enough, enough?
How many more individuals have to die because of the lack of effort placed in our community. The street lighting is bad, crosswalks, streets need to be repaved and re-lined from Nanakuli to Makaha.
The Department of Transportation needs to be more constructive with the way street traffic is flowed in our town of Waianae and the parents need to be watching out for their keiki.
Just sad to see the continuous neglect being placed on Farrington Highway and all the youth that are gone.
Someone should do a case study “Hawaii’s Deadliest Road” Farrington Highway.
May you all have a safe and blessed Holiday (Memorial Day) Season?
Bill
Waianae, Hawaii 2005
Kane'ohe, Hawaii 2008