Comments on: Some Good News from the Hawaii State Capitol http://capsun.org/2009/10/22/some-good-news-from-the-hawaii-state-capitol/ Sharing (and commenting on) what's important to me Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:12:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Capsun http://capsun.org/2009/10/22/some-good-news-from-the-hawaii-state-capitol/comment-page-1/#comment-3728 Capsun Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:28:11 +0000 http://capsun.org/?p=2385#comment-3728 Quilly: Interesting thought...we'll have to wait to see what comes of all this. amoeba and Thom: I hadn't thought of it in a negative light. Thank you for sharing your point of view...I'm sure many would agree with what you've shared. I remain hopeful that something can be done to avoid our state having the fewest instructional days in the country. Quilly: Interesting thought…we’ll have to wait to see what comes of all this.

amoeba and Thom: I hadn’t thought of it in a negative light. Thank you for sharing your point of view…I’m sure many would agree with what you’ve shared. I remain hopeful that something can be done to avoid our state having the fewest instructional days in the country.

]]> By: Thom http://capsun.org/2009/10/22/some-good-news-from-the-hawaii-state-capitol/comment-page-1/#comment-3720 Thom Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:55:33 +0000 http://capsun.org/?p=2385#comment-3720 I'm appalled at this. The furlough the teachers but then have jobs opening at the state? What's up with that? Make the Legislators work harder with less people I say. If they have enough money to hire them, why couldn't that money go for our education system? Our children are our future but yet we are going to give them less education? It disgusts me that they are hiring when that money could go to our teachers. Something just isn't right here. I’m appalled at this. The furlough the teachers but then have jobs opening at the state? What’s up with that? Make the Legislators work harder with less people I say. If they have enough money to hire them, why couldn’t that money go for our education system? Our children are our future but yet we are going to give them less education? It disgusts me that they are hiring when that money could go to our teachers. Something just isn’t right here.

]]> By: the amoeba http://capsun.org/2009/10/22/some-good-news-from-the-hawaii-state-capitol/comment-page-1/#comment-3717 the amoeba Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:32:36 +0000 http://capsun.org/?p=2385#comment-3717 I read that the parent lawsuits failed to block the first two furlough fridays. From what I understand of the matter, Quilly is correct about the special ed kids, except replace "deserve" with "shall, by law, receive". But this lawsuit effort strikes me as ineffective at best, and, at worst, mere grandstanding by a couple of publicity-hounding lawyers. If folk were truly serious, those lawsuits would have been presented <i>within hours of the standover ratification of the teacher contract</i>. I expected nothing different, however; a society that tolerates private schools, <i>any</i> private schools, never mind one that raises them to the pinnacles upon which they're set in Hawai‘i, has already consigned its non-elites to the dustbin. There are some who would put a different construction on the state political offices being open on this first furlough friday: "they can dish it out but they can't take it." See also "rich getting richer", and "no person's life or property is safe while the Legislature is in session." I read that the parent lawsuits failed to block the first two furlough fridays. From what I understand of the matter, Quilly is correct about the special ed kids, except replace “deserve” with “shall, by law, receive”. But this lawsuit effort strikes me as ineffective at best, and, at worst, mere grandstanding by a couple of publicity-hounding lawyers. If folk were truly serious, those lawsuits would have been presented within hours of the standover ratification of the teacher contract. I expected nothing different, however; a society that tolerates private schools, any private schools, never mind one that raises them to the pinnacles upon which they’re set in Hawai‘i, has already consigned its non-elites to the dustbin.

There are some who would put a different construction on the state political offices being open on this first furlough friday: “they can dish it out but they can’t take it.” See also “rich getting richer”, and “no person’s life or property is safe while the Legislature is in session.”

]]> By: Quilly http://capsun.org/2009/10/22/some-good-news-from-the-hawaii-state-capitol/comment-page-1/#comment-3707 Quilly Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:31:56 +0000 http://capsun.org/?p=2385#comment-3707 Parent law suit -- that doesn't surprise me. The special ed kids already don't get all the Federal services they deserve. The Hawaii Department of Ed may be in for some major restructuring. You know, this furlough thing might just turn out to be positive after all, but in a whole different way then the government envisioned. Parent law suit — that doesn’t surprise me. The special ed kids already don’t get all the Federal services they deserve. The Hawaii Department of Ed may be in for some major restructuring. You know, this furlough thing might just turn out to be positive after all, but in a whole different way then the government envisioned.

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