Boots said: "While there may be some truth to this, fact is the cream is taken by the private schools which means the public schools have a lower standard of student. Public schools are stuck with the kids with various problems and the schools lack consistency. The public schools probably have the more difficult job as their budgets are the first to be cut while discipline is a foreign word."

A couple of things.  If Hawaii public schools weren't already so top heavy and terrible then families wouldn't be scrimping and saving and borrowing to send their kids to private schools. There's a reason Hawaii has the greatest per capita of kids in private schools.  If the State didn't do such an awful job and weren't so beholding to the whims and desires of the HSTA, things might be different, but as it stands, the DOE skim off all the money for their "executives" before it can reach the schools.  I support turning off AC at DOE until all schools that need it have AC.