Posted on 03/07/2015 8:28:10 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Students at Hawaiian Mission Academy don't have to wonder about homelessness anymore. They tried it out.
Click here to watch Cam Tran's report.
"We had a whole 24 hours where kids came to school homeless. They were not supposed to groom or shower or anything," said Hawaiian Mission Academy Chaplain Luis Beltre.
For the whole day, the students had to search for their own meals. There were snacks hidden around the campus and they had to find the meals in order to eat. And like many homeless, they didn't have any modern luxuries like cell phones or electronics.
They also had to build their own shelter using cardboard boxes. Students slept in their makeshift homes in the outdoor elements including Thursday night's chilly weather and gusty winds. Many of them huddled up together to keep warm.
After the long night on the concrete, the students made a brown bag lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They hand-delivered the sack lunches to homeless in Kaka'ako. For these students being homeless for 24 hours was a humbling experience.
"It was just one day so it really wasn't that bad, but I can't imagine what it'd feel like to go months without toothpaste or showers," said student Jun Shin.
"I just hope everyone realizes how good we have it for ourselves and how spoiled we are. Just the fact people are struggling with other things and that the problems we face to face day to day isn't anything compared to these people out there," said student Molli Kalua-Elkins.
Wow. Being homeless sound like fun. Searching for snacks, etc. when I was a kid, I used to search for the Easter basket that the bunny hit. It was full of jelly beans and chocolate. When my parents got a new refrigerator, I usec the box as a fort. It was cool. You needed to know a secret password to get in!
Being homeless sure sounds like fun! It’s like being a kid again.
Imagine a generation where the only contact with reality is fake. How are they going to even know what a saved world would be like?
(end of rant)
Yeah, but unless they panhandled for “spare change” and then got drunk or stoned on crack, crank, or china with the proceeds, they missed the genuine experience.
Unfortunately, we didn't notice any difference.
a whole 24 hours
[tsk tsk tsk]
Snacks were hidden around and they couldn’t take a shower!!!
How many homeless died because they were fed pbj sammiches?
They do this thing at the school my kids used to go to. The kids go to school and are supposed to sleep outside in a cardboard box in order to experience homelessness. My daughter lasted about an hour until she saw a spider. Then the box was abandoned, and she spend the night, with about 90% of the kids in the school lobby. Soda pop, pizza and shooting baskets in the gym rounded out the ‘homeless experience’. There were even stories of sex between the students.
I guess it could have been worse. They could have set up the 24-hour event like the Senate does a filibuster — a couple of hours each day until it adds up to 24 hours.
In an earlier day many of the homeless would have been in psychiatric hospitals being treated for schizophrenia and other severe,long term,illnesses.But starting in the 70’s “progressives” decided that seeing a schizophrenic freeze to death in a doorway is better than having him held..against his will...in a warm psychiatric hospital.So most of them were closed...per order of the American Communist Lawyers’ Union.
We did the same stupid libtard thing at Stanford. We had this pothead social studies prof (it was a mandatory course) made us go homeless for 2 days. Wasted my date with a hot blonde taking Communications. Anyways..
The lesson he wanted us to learn backfired. Instead of sympathy or apathy, everyone in our class vowed to make more money and if not, we’ll end end up like them.
“I just hope everyone realizes how good we have it for ourselves and how spoiled we are. Just the fact people are struggling with other things and that the problems we face to face day to day isn’t anything compared to these people out there,” said student Molli Kalua-Elkins.
Nope, I do not agree that people who work for a living and pay their bills, as well as the taxes to support entitlement/welfare programs for those who don’t or won’t work to support themselves, are spoiled. That’s ridiculous and goes right along with the ideology that white=racist.
Better to be homeless in Hawaii than Busking in Boston.
Especially in March.
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“HMA students find out what it’s like to be homeless (Martin Sheen redux)”
They should concentrate more on encouraging them to get a job.
I spend almost half the year in Hawaii. Unfortunately most of it on Oahu. Hawaii spoils the homeless and more and more keep arriving from the mainland. There are showers and toilets at almost all beaches. The homeless make elaborate villages in abondoned lots and fields. The streets of Honolulu are lined with tents and stolen shopping carts. Many are homeless by choice thought you won’t ever hear their advocates admit it. Many are young wannabe new age hippies that are just layabouts who want to live on a tropical island. There are a lot of the ice heads and drunks but not as many as a place like Los Angeles.
I hear you, it's very sad to see. The city and state governments need to make things much tougher on the ever-growing vagrant population, especially out-of-staters, or their number one industry (tourism) is going to take a major hit.
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What’s “chilly” in Honolulu, 70 degrees?
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