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I’ve noticed this past week that Lunalilo Elementary School is having another “break”. I got curious if it had to do with furloughs, and went to their website. On Fridays there are furlough days listed as well as many conference days. The future of our children should be the very last thing compromised. Is all the funding for the rail being put on hold so that teachers can teach and our children can learn? I don’t have kids but it disturbs me when a nine-year-old neighbor has come to the conclusion that growing up to aspire to be a maid means she can submit wrong answers on homework and it is OK. Children are very perceptive - if education isn’t a first priority to the adult community directing children’s futures, why should it be to them? And in ten years, we’ll be wondering why so many more young people are “dropping out” of society to do drugs, petty crime or settling for dead end, low tech jobs.I was very lucky in that I was raised at a time, in a state where education was a top priority, and even though I got educated in a public school, I’m amazed at how much better of an education I got than people who attended private school in other states. What is it going to take to get this state on track with how vital education is? People, regardless of what they do career wise, are a lot less likely to get addicted to drugs or turn to the quick money of vice when given a good quality education and, well, taught to think. Some things are far too precious to be furloughed out.

Posted by Beverly Ho  on  10/08  at  03:00 PM

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