I am a firm believer in schools are only as good as the parents involvement in their kids education. I appreciate your honest feedback on the schools. I have listened to others on UA-cam talking Hawaii and yours to me is the most informative, Genuine and passionate. Keep the videos coming. Don’t be afraid to send your thoughts on the Big Island.
I agree, parent involvement is huge. Something as simple as teaching your kid how to take notes in a way that *_they_** **_understand_* the math problem, is about as good as it gets.
a day in your life would be nice to see, including the drive...also i love when you go to eat. thank you very much for your videos, they are a great help.
I know that ULS isn’t a public school and it’s a charter but it’s a good school, it’s well rounded in sports and academics, it also has some harsh grade rules (1 f you fail and 2 ds you fail) but it does make you a better student in the end and strive high, the only downside is that it only has 56 students per grade (10 per elementary)
The only places I'm looking at are Makaha, Haleiwa, and Kahuku. Move there and rent first, then save up for a home (rent for 3-10 years). My son is 13 and I'm most interested in him having the privilege to go surf with his friends after school without having to worry about him getting kidnapped, hit by a car, etc. I honestly don't care about schools. I dropped out in 7th grade and now I'm a cloud software architect. Learning from being in front of a computer, hard work, being cunning, and taking risks was the key to my success. My biggest leg up was having a computer during my teenage years. Opportunity that comes from money, having a good father, etc. isn't something that I had. My son has a major leg up in the race by having a father that comes with fatherly advice and somebody to keep him in line. Makaha, Haleiwa, or Kahuku mostly because of being less populated areas, close to good surf, and more affordable. Biggest concerns about Makaha: - is it a meth town? or is that fading out? or is it just a bad rumor? - is this where the largest gathering of displaced people are? Biggest concerns about Haleiwa: - Prices - Flooding Biggest concerns about Kahuku: - Internet speed (for work) - Having to switch school zones in-between annual rent contracts for whatever reason. We're a family of 4 (husband/wife/13boy/2boy) so it'd be a luxury to have 3 bedrooms but 2 is fine also. Beach, hike, and restaurant on the weekends. Beach or stay at home Mon-Fri. Grocery shop at 6 AM every other Saturday. If we can't secure a rental initially, then we're considering renting in Honolulu for the first year but that means my son switching schools twice, and we'd like to avoid that. I think people worry too much about schools or neighborhoods in Hawaii to be honest. Compared to Atlanta, Montgomery, most parts of Florida, and other major U.S. Cities, Hawaii is as safe as it gets, and schools aren't nearly as important as a good teacher is. Having a good teacher is priceless & a good teacher is somebody that is happy while teaching. There's not a school system in the entire country with metrics revolving around "good teachers". The only way to do that would be to have the parents and students in each school, vote for their favorite teachers, associate that with with their grades in that class, and then some school hires all of those teachers and then you can truly say "we have the best school". Getting metrics from an accumulated GPA doesn't mean anything. Having a school where the kid is excited to wake up and go there everyday, that's everything... Those are my moving to Hawaii goals...
Roosevelt is a special kine place all the high school stereotypes fall by the wayside and we all kinda just family we get more fights against other schools than internally lol
i love how you dance around ethnicity and affluence East honolulu is predominantly upper income professional highly affluent asians and .caucasians. including. wealthy asian national investors …. especially Kahala and mountainside estates. as you progress west except for predominately more affluent white /asian Kapolei level of income drops snd population becomes more ethnically diverse …..of course hawaii has become so gentrified. income differences are almost superfluous ….average home prices. speak to that to that
ps. i graduated from Punahou. in 68. and my parents moved here in 1954. Without getting into the economic foundation. the Hawaii i experienced was basically an aristocracy in which one was rich and white or poor and dark with a growing asian middle class due to the rise of a service base economy from the slow demise of agribusiness. Segregation was a conspicuous sociological phenomenon phenomena. asians went to Iolani. and the white ruling class. went almost exclusively. to Punahou. Roosevelt and Kalani were for ranked highly because they were were populated by affluent asians and whites who valued education but not affluent enough to afford punahou or Iolani respectively
@@billdodge9094 mahalo for your comment. We have rules against steering and so while Hawaii people are not afraid of conversations around affluence and ethnicity nor are we offended, I have to be careful. I appreciate your comment.
PS in summary for many generations the racial and income divide was the UH and Manoa etc. Everything east of that and south of Kaimuki / was white and wealthy West of thatnonwhites !! were economically challenged
@@808G8GT yeah, I just always dreamed of attending any schools in that zone... girls there won't even acknowledge me once they know I attended Farrington.
Roosevelt! My teachers there were the best. My class was the first to graduate on the new astro turf. Growing up my friends outside were from McKinley or Moanalua High School. Moanalua has/had a super good marching band, but I heard their teenage pregnancy was high back then. Very few of my friends went to Kalani but they never liked the school. But this was back around in 2009 so it can be different now. These are just some thoughts from another local who grew up here.
THIS. There are TONS of places on the US mainland that check all the boxes Hawaii does (tropical, nice ocean etc.) and are TONS cheaper. Plus they are closer to truly Paradise-like places like the Baja Peninsula or the Caribbean and Belieze. If you move to Hawaii you are THOUSANDS of mile from .... everywhere.
@@astro0512 Aloha is not free. If you aren’t willing to show it, you aren’t going to receive it. And who knows, maybe you’re just unlucky. But assuming I’m mean based on me trying to protect the land of my blood, then so be it.
Maybe hawaiians need to stop voting for democraps who sell and offer land to foreign developers. Also, choke natives don't even take care of our own 'aīna.
lol...this was pretty cool. I know you're trying to lean on the PC side and not venture into the culture side of those areas that surround those schools cause it will show the type of ethnicities that are from there. Like we know..campbell, waipahu, farrington.... choke filipinos, hawaiians.. kalaheo's majority caucasian......same with Radford due to the military...
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Wondering if you guys ever came across any real estate that was haunted or give you hebi jebis. If so do you cleanse it also do you disclose it to buyers🤔.
Idk about Hawaii, but in GA: A stigmatized property is any building that has a detrimental issue that is not related to the physical condition of the house. This could include a sordid history - say, a murder or suicide on the premises - or even a belief that the house has a supernatural visitor. In Georgia, the Stigmatized Property Act states that agents are not required to disclose any of these events if they occurred on the property.
Salt Lake is definitely a concrete jungle. I did a lot of walking as a kid, to salt lake elementary, moanalua middle and high schools. We would still go looking for nature. Sneaking into moanalua gardens, walking along the stream under the freeway into mapunapuna. One time we tried to get to the salt lake from levels park, we never made it cause the brush was too thick. Good times. Haha, and the closest "beach" is Ke'ehi lagoon!
I wouldn't want to send a child to Punahou. That school is so woke. I heard that they established a co-ed bathroom without asking the parents. Well of course the parents will find out because kids talk. The co-ed bathroom was soon no longer in service. Plus after obama ruined our economy...No thanks Punahou. I would make Punahou pay me to send a child to that liberal/woke establishment. Punahou theme...."Me, me, me!" I had a friend who worked in children's ministry at a church. Without bias, because she is from the mainland, she mentioned that she sensed the " 'tude" in the Punahou kids in the daycare.
Sadly, Punahou turns out a lot of snobs. The mainland fascination with social class thrives there. There are also a lot of really nice people who come out of there, but it's still EXPENSIVE.
Oh stop with your republican whack rhetoric. Which religion should we follow in America? Is it yours?? Doubt it. We should keep religion out of education. America was founded on religious freedom, not to shove your one religion down out throats!! Remember why they ran away from England. For crying out loud you sound like that ridiculous Donald Trump. You are now in a Democratic state. Get used to it.
I am a firm believer in schools are only as good as the parents involvement in their kids education. I appreciate your honest feedback on the schools. I have listened to others on UA-cam talking Hawaii and yours to me is the most informative, Genuine and passionate. Keep the videos coming. Don’t be afraid to send your thoughts on the Big Island.
I agree, parent involvement is huge. Something as simple as teaching your kid how to take notes in a way that *_they_** **_understand_* the math problem, is about as good as it gets.
a day in your life would be nice to see, including the drive...also i love when you go to eat. thank you very much for your videos, they are a great help.
Mahalo Derek!!! We don’t have any children but this is great video anyway.
Mahalo for your feedback
I had great teachers at Pearl City High School. I bet every school has some amazing teachers that students remember.
Everyone has a few teachers they will remember forever. Teachers are such a crucial part of our community!
What about likelike elementary school
You best just home school your kids.. 😆
I know that ULS isn’t a public school and it’s a charter but it’s a good school, it’s well rounded in sports and academics, it also has some harsh grade rules (1 f you fail and 2 ds you fail) but it does make you a better student in the end and strive high, the only downside is that it only has 56 students per grade (10 per elementary)
The only places I'm looking at are Makaha, Haleiwa, and Kahuku. Move there and rent first, then save up for a home (rent for 3-10 years). My son is 13 and I'm most interested in him having the privilege to go surf with his friends after school without having to worry about him getting kidnapped, hit by a car, etc.
I honestly don't care about schools. I dropped out in 7th grade and now I'm a cloud software architect. Learning from being in front of a computer, hard work, being cunning, and taking risks was the key to my success. My biggest leg up was having a computer during my teenage years. Opportunity that comes from money, having a good father, etc. isn't something that I had. My son has a major leg up in the race by having a father that comes with fatherly advice and somebody to keep him in line.
Makaha, Haleiwa, or Kahuku mostly because of being less populated areas, close to good surf, and more affordable.
Biggest concerns about Makaha:
- is it a meth town? or is that fading out? or is it just a bad rumor?
- is this where the largest gathering of displaced people are?
Biggest concerns about Haleiwa:
- Prices
- Flooding
Biggest concerns about Kahuku:
- Internet speed (for work)
- Having to switch school zones in-between annual rent contracts for whatever reason.
We're a family of 4 (husband/wife/13boy/2boy) so it'd be a luxury to have 3 bedrooms but 2 is fine also. Beach, hike, and restaurant on the weekends. Beach or stay at home Mon-Fri. Grocery shop at 6 AM every other Saturday.
If we can't secure a rental initially, then we're considering renting in Honolulu for the first year but that means my son switching schools twice, and we'd like to avoid that.
I think people worry too much about schools or neighborhoods in Hawaii to be honest. Compared to Atlanta, Montgomery, most parts of Florida, and other major U.S. Cities, Hawaii is as safe as it gets, and schools aren't nearly as important as a good teacher is. Having a good teacher is priceless & a good teacher is somebody that is happy while teaching. There's not a school system in the entire country with metrics revolving around "good teachers". The only way to do that would be to have the parents and students in each school, vote for their favorite teachers, associate that with with their grades in that class, and then some school hires all of those teachers and then you can truly say "we have the best school". Getting metrics from an accumulated GPA doesn't mean anything. Having a school where the kid is excited to wake up and go there everyday, that's everything...
Those are my moving to Hawaii goals...
Sounds like a well thought out plan! Best of luck and don’t let anyone stand in the way of your dreams.
Haoles should avoid makaha and kahuku. Try Kailua or Hawaii Kai.
@@csan193 I've heard that before.
Radford is makai area moanalua has the mauka military installations.
Roosevelt is a special kine place all the high school stereotypes fall by the wayside and we all kinda just family we get more fights against other schools than internally lol
I just started the video, I saw the title, Im from Hawaii. Lets the SCRAPS begin lol *only a hawaii people joke*
HS are a real point of contention here aren’t they lol
i love how you dance around ethnicity and affluence East honolulu is predominantly upper income professional highly affluent asians and .caucasians. including. wealthy asian national investors …. especially Kahala and mountainside estates. as you progress west except for predominately more affluent white /asian Kapolei level of income drops snd population becomes more ethnically diverse …..of course hawaii has become so gentrified. income differences are almost superfluous ….average home prices. speak to that to that
ps. i graduated from Punahou. in 68. and my parents moved here in 1954. Without getting into the economic foundation. the Hawaii i experienced was basically an aristocracy in which one was rich and white or poor and dark with a growing asian middle class due to the rise of a service base
economy from the slow demise of agribusiness. Segregation was a conspicuous sociological phenomenon phenomena. asians went to Iolani. and the white ruling class. went almost exclusively. to Punahou. Roosevelt and Kalani were for ranked highly because they were were populated by affluent asians and whites who valued education but not affluent enough to afford punahou or Iolani respectively
@@billdodge9094 mahalo for your comment. We have rules against steering and so while Hawaii people are not afraid of conversations around affluence and ethnicity nor are we offended, I have to be careful. I appreciate your comment.
PS in summary for many generations the racial and income divide was the UH and Manoa etc. Everything east of that and south of Kaimuki / was white and wealthy West of thatnonwhites !! were economically challenged
Kaiser's OK. They publish a daily school newspaper or at least did. It's not academically demanding at all but then no Hawaii school is.
I counted only four...I went to Radford 74-76
The Top 5 H.S. starting at the bottom, Kahuku, Kaimuki, Waipahu, Hawaii Kai, and Farrington... 😆
Lmfao....there is no such thing as "Hawaii Kai" high school.
I think you mean Kaiser High school which is located in Hawaii Kai.
@@808G8GT yeah, I just always dreamed of attending any schools in that zone... girls there won't even acknowledge me once they know I attended Farrington.
At the time I didn’t understand why my pops sent me to McKinley instead of my zone school farrington… now I know why 😂
Roosevelt! My teachers there were the best. My class was the first to graduate on the new astro turf. Growing up my friends outside were from McKinley or Moanalua High School. Moanalua has/had a super good marching band, but I heard their teenage pregnancy was high back then. Very few of my friends went to Kalani but they never liked the school. But this was back around in 2009 so it can be different now. These are just some thoughts from another local who grew up here.
Neighborhoods by teen pregnancy rate… hmmmm. I wonder if we can get away with that.
@@movingtohawaii That was what people were saying back then. Hopefully it wasn’t true and that it’s not the case now lol
@@kyomaru7 brah I grad Roosevelt 09 too😂😂 had Mrs Hamel as my home room teacher.
Teenage pregnancy is the parents fault, not the school lol...
Don’t move to Hawai‘i. Especially if you aren’t going to help/benefit the ‘Āina.
THIS. There are TONS of places on the US mainland that check all the boxes Hawaii does (tropical, nice ocean etc.) and are TONS cheaper. Plus they are closer to truly Paradise-like places like the Baja Peninsula or the Caribbean and Belieze. If you move to Hawaii you are THOUSANDS of mile from .... everywhere.
@@astro0512 you are assuming that without even meeting me.
@@astro0512 Aloha is not free. If you aren’t willing to show it, you aren’t going to receive it. And who knows, maybe you’re just unlucky. But assuming I’m mean based on me trying to protect the land of my blood, then so be it.
Maybe hawaiians need to stop voting for democraps who sell and offer land to foreign developers. Also, choke natives don't even take care of our own 'aīna.
@astro0512 why you delete your comment?
Thank you! Looking at schools for my daughter now!
If you register on our website we will set up a one on one convo.
lol...this was pretty cool. I know you're trying to lean on the PC side and not venture into the culture side of those areas that surround those schools cause it will show the type of ethnicities that are from there. Like we know..campbell, waipahu, farrington.... choke filipinos, hawaiians.. kalaheo's majority caucasian......same with Radford due to the military...
It not the outer island it called neighbor island we are all one
Fair enough..
I LOVE The Spirit of hawaiians, your culture, the "accents"😉😊, The Love and connection with Mother Earth and Her Spirit🥰... 💯dopeness🤙🌺... hey... ya'll got B-boys!?!? Even better!😍🤸🏾♂️😁
Manoa and Tantalus kids go to Roosevelt alongside Papakolea and Auwaiolimu.
Already heights too I think
Wondering if you guys ever came across any real estate that was haunted or give you hebi jebis. If so do you cleanse it also do you disclose it to buyers🤔.
Idk about Hawaii, but in GA:
A stigmatized property is any building that has a detrimental issue that is not related to the physical condition of the house. This could include a sordid history - say, a murder or suicide on the premises - or even a belief that the house has a supernatural visitor. In Georgia, the Stigmatized Property Act states that agents are not required to disclose any of these events if they occurred on the property.
Can you talk about Campbell High?
I went to Campbell. Are you considering the Ewa area?
I believe its more on the student than the school.
I love the way you present information. Very professional, serious yet entertaining
Every school is what you put into it. Any kid from any high school in hawaii can “make” it if they strive for what they desire.
TAKE TOOOOO LOOOONNNNG DESCRIBING YOUR POINT!
Should we be more thorough? Thanks for your feedback.
Salt Lake is definitely a concrete jungle. I did a lot of walking as a kid, to salt lake elementary, moanalua middle and high schools. We would still go looking for nature. Sneaking into moanalua gardens, walking along the stream under the freeway into mapunapuna. One time we tried to get to the salt lake from levels park, we never made it cause the brush was too thick. Good times. Haha, and the closest "beach" is Ke'ehi lagoon!
Hahaha Ke'ehi lagoon .... that's kinda like the "beach" being Love Canal.
I wouldn't want to send a child to Punahou. That school is so woke. I heard that they established a co-ed bathroom without asking the parents. Well of course the parents will find out because kids talk. The co-ed bathroom was soon no longer in service. Plus after obama ruined our economy...No thanks Punahou. I would make Punahou pay me to send a child to that liberal/woke establishment. Punahou theme...."Me, me, me!" I had a friend who worked in children's ministry at a church. Without bias, because she is from the mainland, she mentioned that she sensed the " 'tude" in the Punahou kids in the daycare.
This is gonna shock you but beach bathrooms were always unisex in that go in, go shishi, and never mind there are no doors on the stalls.
Sadly, Punahou turns out a lot of snobs. The mainland fascination with social class thrives there. There are also a lot of really nice people who come out of there, but it's still EXPENSIVE.
Oh stop with your republican whack rhetoric. Which religion should we follow in America? Is it yours?? Doubt it. We should keep religion out of education. America was founded on religious freedom, not to shove your one religion down out throats!! Remember why they ran away from England. For crying out loud you sound like that ridiculous Donald Trump. You are now in a Democratic state. Get used to it.
I am sure Punahou employees are sighing in relief.
@@alexcarter8807 where? All the beaches i go to get the men and female signs on em.