There are a few things that could be pointed out in this picture.
There is an obvious issue…
But there is some other issues that disturb me about this sign… I will see if anyone else picks up on it.
I love this school and my son would have gone here had he not gotten accepted into Kamehameha.
If a public school mandates that uniforms will be worn… should we the taxpayers pay for these uniforms?
I think all schools should have uniforms and I don’t think parents should have to pay out of their pockets for the uniforms.
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That was government schools in Australia…
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School uniforms?
My first encounter was with our children in government (they are not referred to there as ‘public’) schools.
Uniforms were mandatory and were purchased by the family at a private store.
Hand-me-down-and-around uniforms among and between families is a regular done thing.
The ‘mandatory’ bit created an element of discomfort for me.
Our children went with the flow, of course :)
The up side is, laundry chores actually do get simplified.
“Brainwashing the children”?????
Sad that you believe that.
the goal of the public school system is not to be efficient with your tax dollars. it has only 2 functions; growing its bureaucracy and brainwashing the children.
Kudo’s to the public school system as well. This year, while coaching cross-country at Waiakea, 80 percent of my athletes were “scholar athletes”.
Several won college scholarships and one of them, Daniel Okubo, was accepted and given an acedemic scholarship to Harvard.
While Kamehameha accepts “the best and the brightest” our public school system is open to all.
Best of luck for your son getting into Kamehameha.
That is a school that will make a very big and very positive difference in their students’ future.
I was fortunate to teach in Summer School at Kamehameha Kapalama Campus in 2002. While I needed the cash at the time, I also wanted to see if Kamehameha Schools was really as good as all the talk I’d heard. It was better!
Also, over the past years, in various circumstances I have met young professionals around the islands, and can just about always pick out a Kamehameha graduate — intelligent, self-confident, capable, responsible.