Stevie Wonder, and now this?

How stupid do they think Hawaii is? Wait, don’t answer that.

It’s plain that the scammers, who undoubtedly watched with rapt interest during the whole Wonder Blunder mess, believe that the University of Hawaii athletics folks are easy marks.

That’s all we can conclude from the admission by Athletic Director Ben Jay that he was approached by someone pitching a Bruno Mars benefit concert at the Stan Sheriff Center. Hey, if they’ll bite on the prospect of a Stevie Wonder concert, surely they can be lured by this.

Perhaps the promoter, who had no connection with Mars whatsoever, should have waited until the Wonder fiasco had faded from memory. Say, in a decade?

Heavy hitters at education event

Thousands of educators from Hawaii’s public, charter, independent and parochial schools will gather at the Hawaii Convention Center later this month for the fifth annual Schools of the Future conference, focused on ways to improve their own methods and their schools overall.

This year’s event, set for Oct. 17-18, promises keynote presentations by three of today’s most influential thinkers in education reform and instructional innovation: Linda Darling-Hammond, an education professor at Stanford University; Yong Zhao, associate dean for global education at the University of Oregon; and Brian Lewis, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, known as ISTE.

This annual gathering is an example of educational collaboration at its best in Hawaii, designed to inspire teachers, who in turn inspire students. More information is at www.sotfconf.org/.