Draft AL

Dear Governor Linda Lingle
I am a 10th grader at Moanalua High School and I love living in Hawaii. I have been living in Hawaii my whole life (15 years) without problems with the way things were being going with the government. It’s been right on track my whole life.

However, this past year had created some issue for me as a student in Hawaii. This problem is your decision on the furlough Friday. With Hawaii under a standards based grading scale, teachers say to be “require” to teach all of this information by a certain date. Without these Fridays in the school week, I don’t really have enough time to be learning the information into better understanding then I could normally do. I understand that the state doesn’t have enough money to pay the teachers for their services but I feel that the younger generations especially kids in high school need to get a good education to prepare for college or maybe even the “real world”. Keeping these furloughs on Fridays won’t help that one bit.

Although, I do have fun because of no school on Fridays, I still have to say that I am having a little harder time getting the grades I usually have because of these shorter weeks and less time learning in class. I also appreciate your sympathy for the teachers since they can’t get paid why not have days off. But kids are the future and Hawaii should prepare its keiki for a better life.

I hope these furloughs get ended so I can personally prepare myself for college and have a better life.


Sincerely,
Austin Inabata

Angry Letter

For my angry letter i am thinking about writing to linda lingle about the furloghs. or may be to president obama about sending more soldiers to the war.