[debg]

Kam Schools are private and has earned their stellar reputation from years of hard work and dedication. It's no wonder that only the best and the brightest now gain entrance. Those forces that want to dilute the Kam schools should look to the public school system. There, they can create magnet schools and magnet programs that can replicate the Kam schools core experience (no boarding) without the parents having to pay tuition.

[jobim]

What about the directions in the will specifically targeting the most needy?

John Lee has 1% Hawaiian blood, parents both professionals, he's Ivy League material, gets in. John Kanaka has 50% Hawaiian blood, reads at the 5th grade level in 10th grade at the local public school, rejected.

What did Pauahi Bishop intend? To help those most likely to succeed? No, all involved in these campuses set apart from the riff-raff on hillsides with multiple gyms, multi-purpose halls, mahogany desks, all involved work in great concert to keep it pristine, unfettered by social & academic misfits.

Yes, let them go to a charter school for free, you suggest. What about the will?