Finally, some action from our Governor! It's a relief to know that Gov. Lingle is actually putting some initiative into our state. So, as the newspaper says, she is in favor of ending the furlough's and giving people back their full work week. Of course she has an opposing party in this, but there always is one. I can understand why too. I'm sure that there will be repercussions of Gov. Lingle ending the furlough's. Our Country is at war and our economy is suffering due to the nature of the costs to keep our men and women overseas. Who knows when this madness will eventually end, but our childrens' educations and our livelihood have been greatly impacted and affected from this and enough is enough already. Maybe some form of compromise can be reached with the furlough's, at least i would hope so, it's hard enough to find a job right now and for those fortunate to still have theirs, it's a struggle to bring home a decent paycheck and provide for their families. Our state is in over it's head as I see it. People have lost jobs, and even their homes over this travesty of finance. How long will it take for our economy to bounce back from this? Is it possible that we're going to go thru another "Great Depression"? I can only hope not. I have heard many stories from my father and my tutus of what it was like and how much of a struggle thhat it was to make a living and to make ends meet back then. Prices are way higher than back in that time. It would be hell to go through that at this day and age. May God be merciful.
I do not believe Lingle and her supposedly good work of cutting out furlough days. Those of us that works in the DOE do not believe much of what just happened. If one understand NCLB in a classroom over a five year period, you would know the tremedouse problem(s) that has just occurred. Each year schools strive for Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) and over the years schools falls of the list of meeting AYP. Each year the bar is raised and those that didn't meet AYP have to do double the job. To date if one can understand the raising of the bar--some schools fell back five years. In other words our Hawaiian DOE dense schools will have a large drop out rate. I teach day and night in Waianae and try to fill in the gap between drop outs and 3rd grade reading comprehension. Mind you I entered college with a reading comprehension of 3rd grade and graduated with a BA in Geography. I had to live in the dorms to graduate in 51/2 years. 24/7 studying was my life, I wanted to go on to graduate school, but I can't at this time because of the student loans. I am a non traditional students with lots of bills to pay.
Governor enjoys the strangulation of vulnerable people such as children and women in poverty. Yup, you are right I said strangulation. I have watched her helper's rip our people to shreds and enjoy the moment. Call it Toynbee Vectoring something that I learned in college.
Come January our children will not be able to catch up to the intense benchmarks. Nor can the adults in their lives keep up with paying their bills, (such as high interest rates, land taxes, fees of every kind of nature etc..) As a Geographer this is called red linning in hopes of aquiring land--Hawaiian land. To be placed into Trust land banking just like Alaska, now if one compares we do not have land for banking--ocean maybe. So we should see some changes in how can one endure the climax and the already infalliable Aloha turn into the governors midas touch schem of things. Her end game has an impact on majority of our students in public schools. Let's see how well the bottom survive well into the next ten years. We should see the military gain momentum in land aquisition and loss of lives and love of aina.
I too had a conversation with my tutu's and what was said to me was that we had lots of fruit trees and fishing to go to during the depression unlike cold and hot climates. I'm assuming that your are a fisherman and a farmer. With both skills you should be able to survive. I have a small aina but lack the water to do watering in Waianae. I'm looking into gray water eventhough I know eventually it will poison the soil over time. So filtering is a must to use recycled water.
I teach children that have parents in war zone, it's amazing how much these youngsters have to endure during the day. My son-in-law retired from the air force thank goodness. We're just going through lots of adjustments and healing. I think I'm going to spend my Thanksgiving with the houseless on our shores not sure yet. Small kine contribution for our children. How are the flus and HINI on your island, it's hitting our schools but not much in the papers about it? Mahalo for the thoughts Kaohi
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I do not believe Lingle and her supposedly good work of cutting out furlough days. Those of us that works in the DOE do not believe much of what just happened. If one understand NCLB in a classroom over a five year period, you would know the tremedouse problem(s) that has just occurred. Each year schools strive for Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) and over the years schools falls of the list of meeting AYP. Each year the bar is raised and those that didn't meet AYP have to do double the job. To date if one can understand the raising of the bar--some schools fell back five years. In other words our Hawaiian DOE dense schools will have a large drop out rate. I teach day and night in Waianae and try to fill in the gap between drop outs and 3rd grade reading comprehension. Mind you I entered college with a reading comprehension of 3rd grade and graduated with a BA in Geography. I had to live in the dorms to graduate in 51/2 years. 24/7 studying was my life, I wanted to go on to graduate school, but I can't at this time because of the student loans. I am a non traditional students with lots of bills to pay.
Governor enjoys the strangulation of vulnerable people such as children and women in poverty. Yup, you are right I said strangulation. I have watched her helper's rip our people to shreds and enjoy the moment. Call it Toynbee Vectoring something that I learned in college.
Come January our children will not be able to catch up to the intense benchmarks. Nor can the adults in their lives keep up with paying their bills, (such as high interest rates, land taxes, fees of every kind of nature etc..) As a Geographer this is called red linning in hopes of aquiring land--Hawaiian land. To be placed into Trust land banking just like Alaska, now if one compares we do not have land for banking--ocean maybe. So we should see some changes in how can one endure the climax and the already infalliable Aloha turn into the governors midas touch schem of things. Her end game has an impact on majority of our students in public schools. Let's see how well the bottom survive well into the next ten years. We should see the military gain momentum in land aquisition and loss of lives and love of aina.
I too had a conversation with my tutu's and what was said to me was that we had lots of fruit trees and fishing to go to during the depression unlike cold and hot climates. I'm assuming that your are a fisherman and a farmer. With both skills you should be able to survive. I have a small aina but lack the water to do watering in Waianae. I'm looking into gray water eventhough I know eventually it will poison the soil over time. So filtering is a must to use recycled water.
I teach children that have parents in war zone, it's amazing how much these youngsters have to endure during the day. My son-in-law retired from the air force thank goodness. We're just going through lots of adjustments and healing. I think I'm going to spend my Thanksgiving with the houseless on our shores not sure yet. Small kine contribution for our children. How are the flus and HINI on your island, it's hitting our schools but not much in the papers about it? Mahalo for the thoughts Kaohi