BRUCE ASATO / 2016
“Elsewhere in America, where children outshine ours in standard tests, communities pay for public schools run by teacherswith boards the community elects,” writes George Berish.
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More money won’t eliminate the cruelly inadequate education provided Hawaii’s children.
Hawaii is no longer a territory whose simple people need centralized elite rulers saying what’s best for all. Originally, it was the intermarried royal classes — Hawaii royals and European blue bloods. Then the Big Five. Today, a professional political class who see us as clients, and don’t see themselves as public servants.
Elsewhere in America, where children outshine ours in standard tests, communities pay for public schools run by teachers with boards the community elects. Here, state politicians run a consolidated government school system with professional educators answering to a single board appointed by politicians mostly elected by other communities.
Let’s return control of their children’s education to the counties, which have a property tax they can raise. Don’t give state politicians a second property tax you know they’ll use to free up money already spent on schools for something else.
George L. Berish
Kaakako
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