• Swearing not necessary • Coach Borrero punishment unjust • Removed the trash too • ‘I will never return to Kaua‘i’ • Hawai‘i National license plate Swearing not necessary I’ve coached children of all ages, including 5-year-olds when I was
• Swearing not necessary • Coach
Borrero punishment unjust • Removed the trash too
• ‘I will never return to Kaua‘i’ •
Hawai‘i National license plate
Swearing not necessary
I’ve coached children of all ages, including 5-year-olds when I was a teen, both of my sons’ AYSO teams, and a KIF championship Kapa‘a High girls soccer team in the early 90’s.
Contrary to claims by others, swearing is not a necessary form of motivation. There are many, more positive strategies to motivate young children and teens to excel.
Coaching is not just about getting the best skills out of your players. As coaches, one of our primary responsibilities is to act as a role model. While I am no prude (I have been known to swear on occasion, among adults, or in the privacy of my own home) I believe that coaches have an obligation to take the high road in the presence of the young children and teens we are charged with mentoring.
Do I think a coach should be let go for one formal complaint? No.
But if that one complaint is indicative of ongoing behavior, something needs to change. I simply cannot buy the claim that swearing is a justified and necessary coaching strategy. Use a little more imagination.
Abbie Lapetina, Kapa‘a
Coach Borrero punishment unjust
From an outsider looking in, I can honesty say that the penalty of the accusation was quite unjust. If the fact of the matter is about vulgar language that’s used on the field is being brought to the table, then fine, that’s not false information.
But then again, if you were to bring all high-school football coaches throughout Hawai‘i to the table, and ask if they ever used profane language on the field, I can probably infer that with all the intensity going on, the majority have use profane language towards the players at least once.
So I think that the punishment toward Coach Borrero was unjust, but then again, things happen. There will always be more opportunities in the future.
Cara Owan, Lihu‘e
Removed the trash too
Yesterday we were flying back from Kaua‘i after spending a wonderful month there. This was our fourth visit there. I was reading your newspaper on our long flight. To my astonishment I found out the mayor ordered the removal of the most beautiful aloha sign from the Hanapepe area lookout that we saw on your island, which came from the Hawaiians, not from merchants trying to sell us something.
Whenever going to the west we almost always stopped at the lookout to see the beautiful landscape of the mountains and we saw the sign too. At the end of December on our way to Kekaha we saw workers removing the sign with the two Hawaiian flags and a sobering, but true message “Kaua‘i is not America.”
Reading your article “Illegal sign was removed, not stolen” confirmed this message, because nowhere in America a mayor orders to the state, but rather the other way around. By the way workers did not care about the trash in the lookout area, which was there even two weeks later and probably still there. They also left the two big holes unfilled after they removed the concrete footing of the sign.
Mr. mayor, aloha signs are illegal on state property, but is trash legal? Or you just forgot to order the removal of trash? Then why don’t you have at least the sign saying “Littering is unlawful, $1,000 fine” in the lookout area removed too, if you care?
We heard on the community radio of the island that you were of Hawaiian descent. Then you may also request your entry into the Guinness Book of World Records as the first Hawaiian mayor who ordered the removal of a nice aloha sign erected by his Hawaiian brothers and sisters on a land that rightfully belongs to them. But most importantly, please remember: If Kaua‘i became America, what would be the point of going there?
Jeff Tanzer, Salem, Mass.
‘I will never return to Kaua‘i’
I was given a speeding ticket on the tourist speed trap your local police created at the base of the 45-degree hill, before the construction project at the commencement of state route 50.
While I realize that taking advantage of tourists who are not aware of the steep nature of the hill at that location would be a convenient source of revenue, someone might seek to determine the cost to the local economy.
I personally cut my trip short and will never return to Kauai. I would suspect the other tourists, who were the only persons pulled over when I was, will do the same.
I am confident the bad press you will receive when we are asked about our experience here will preclude others from visiting.
Nice going, what a way to promote tourism.
Jay Rogers, Palm Springs, Calif.
Hawai‘i National license plate
Thank you for the integrity to publicly acknowledge on Jan. 12, on the front page of The Garden Island newspaper a photo of the Hawai‘i National license plate issued by the Lawful Hawaiian Government to their nationals.
This was appreciated by many.
And thank you to KPD as well for recognizing the national‘s lawful Right to Travel.
Elaine Dunbar, Lihu‘e
