• Skewed logic • Don’t cut the coach for swearing at students • Put pressure on doctors and cut off the source • County furloughs should never have happened Skewed logic Motivating players by swearing at them is permitted? What
• Skewed logic • Don’t cut the coach
for swearing at students • Put pressure on doctors
and cut off the source • County furloughs should
never have happened
Skewed logic
Motivating players by swearing at them is permitted?
What if a teacher swore at her students to “motivate” them to complete assignments-is that permitted? Long line at the grocery store, swear at the cashier that she is not checking fast enough for you-is that permitted?
A coach’s job is to teach young people how to deal with the real world after school. Swearing because of any reason is not permissible in society, yet it is OK because it is a game?
Just seems like very skewed logic and sad to see so many students writing in that it is somehow OK for this to be allowed.
Principal Smith is doing her job and would be held liable if she allowed the current situation to continue.
Students should be taught how to deal with real life situations appropriately and not be motivated by classless acts of persons that are supposed to be examples and mentors.
Student athletics are very important in teaching students proper behavior when you win of lose. There is no justification for improper behavior by students or coaches.
Robert Craddick, Kapa‘a
Don’t cut the coach for swearing at students
I strong disagree with the way that the situation with Coach Borreo went.
I had the honor of being coached by this man right here and he is an amazing coach and has and awesome coaching staff.
Yeah, he swears, but doesn’t every coach? And if that’s the case, every coach should get fired because that’s just how they coach.
They don’t mean it towards us they just use that vouger (sic) language to get our attention and motivate us. And no one even talked to him about it.
In conclusion, I believe Coach Borrero should not be cut out from our coaching staff which I love dearly.
Kory Uemura, Lihu‘e
Put pressure on doctors and cut off the source
Regarding the recent story, “OPA, KPD crack down on illegal prescription drug use”:
Going after the abusers is only one step in this process. In some ways the abusers are in themselves the victims.
What is missing here is going after the doctors who freely hand out these drugs, even offering them for the slightest illnesses. Pity is they are protected by their license. Oversight is almost non-existent and there is big money involved, easy cash.
We had a doctor on this island who was well known as the “Candy Man.” Years went by without him ever getting stopped. The police knew the dealers and the addicts and nothing was done until the feds stepped in for mailing drugs out of state.
Put pressure on the doctors, cut off the source and get some cross-checking with the RX stores in place.
Thomas McCall, Anahola
County furloughs should never have happened
The Garden Island editorial “Two steps backward, one step forward” hit the bull’s eye dead center (In Our Opinion, Jan. 16).
Its highlight said, “instead of giving us all a refund, we are watching county leaders restore the cuts made under the furlough program and scratching our heads as they simultaneously increase a host of fees for residents and add new high-paying positions.”
We have a $43.1 million unappropriated surplus in our general fund — a whopping 31 percent increase over last year’s total. In these struggling times, how could the brains of this government, both the administration and the council, possibly put further hardships on so many families by mandated furloughs while increasing resident fees and creating new lucrative jobs?
Certainly we need enough money in our general “rainy day” fund for emergency purposes. But, as the article said, conservative accounting practices recommend keeping 17 percent in it, not 27 percent or more!
So why is our council, who sets the rate for the taxes on our property, keeping these rates so high to accumulate a balance far out of proportion to what is needed to run our government?
Most municipalities find out what funds are needed to operate their government and then tax their constituents accordingly. Our county simply taxes their citizens (mostly the homeowners) before knowing what will be needed for its operation and thus creates this unfair overage that can be used for anything they wish.
I too am glad to see the furlough program ended to bring some relief to those who suffered under it. But it was a politically motivated program (to appease the state from taking our TAT tax) and should never have happened under proper leadership. It would have been nice to see what would have happened if a county manager would have been in place.
Glenn Mickens, Kapa‘a
