Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 40, Number 2, 1 February 2023 — Kāko'o i Ke Kula Waena 'o Waimea Supporting Waimea Middle School [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kāko'o i Ke Kula Waena 'o Waimea Supporting Waimea Middle School

Na Ed Kalama

Wūimee Middle School on Howoi'i lslond is one of three public conversion chorter schools, olong with Komoile Acodemy on O'ohu ond Kuolopu'u Preschool ond Elementory School on Moloko'i, thot moke up the community of the Ho'okōko'o Corporotion. Estoblished in 2002, Ho'okōko'o is o privote, nonprofit orgonizotion thot hos grown to oversee ond tronsform educotion progroms ot the three schools. - Photos: Jason Lees

Ke kōkua nei 'o Pat Rice, he kumu no ka manawa lō'ihi, a me kekahi mau pu'u kālā no OHA mai i Ke Kula Waena Ho'āmana Aupuni i ka ho'omohala 'ana i nā papahana kāko'o haumāna. He nui nā kānaka e kāko'o ana i nā haumāna o Ke Kula Waena 'o Waimea, akā he keu ke kōknn n ia

kumu mākaukau loa 'o Pat Rice. Aia 'o Rice ma ia kula mai ka makahiki 1975. He kumu 'o ia i kīnohi, a laila he kumu a'o, a laila he hope po'o kumu, a he po'o kumu ho'i 'o ia i 'ehā mau manawa. Ua līkaia 'o ia i 'elua manawa, akā 'o ia mau nō kāna kāko'o iā lākou. I kēia manawa he laekahi holomua nona ke kuleana o ka noi kālā no ka pono o ke kula, a me ka ho'okō 'ana i nā kuleana o ka noi kālā 'ana. "Hohonu loa ko'u aloha i ke kaiāulu 'o Waimea," wahi āna. "'Oiai ua

hana pu me na kupuna, na makua, a me nā 'ohana hou a'e o ko mākou

mau haumāna, he mahalo ko'u i ka pilina i ulu a'ela i loko o nā makahiki i hala, a 'o kēia mau pilina ke kumu o ko'u noke mau 'ana i ka hana." A ke kōkua mau nei nō 'o Rice. I ka ho'i 'ana o nā haumāna i ke kahua kula ma ke emi 'ana mai o ka ma'i COVID-19, ua ho'omaopopo koke 'o Rice i ke 'ano 'oko'a o nā haumāna, a me ke 'ano e o kā lākou mau lawena. Pēlā i ho'omaka ai 'o Rice i kāna noi'i e pili ana i ke kākau noi kālā 'ana a pa'a maila he pu'u kālā Mālama i Nā 'Ōpio o ka huina he $60,000. SEE KE KULA WAENA '0 WAIMEA 0N PAGE 5

Veteron educotor Pot Rice hos served students in Woimeo for 48 yeors.

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"Me ka pu'u kālā 'o Mālama I Nā 'Ōpio i hai ai mākou i kekahi kumu pāheona/ kumu a'oa'o i mākaukau i ke a'oa'o pō'ino. Ua ho'omaopopo ihola mākou i ka ho'i 'ana mai o nā haumāna ma hope o ka wā ma'i ahulau, e pilikia ana lākou i ka launa kanaka,a he pono nā mākua e mākaukau i ke kōkua i ia mau keiki pōpilikia lo'ohia 'oiai lākou e ho'i hou ana i ke kahua kula," wahi a Rice. "'O ka hopena helu 'ekahi o nā papahana i loa'a mai ma o kēia pu'u kālā, 'o ia ka hiki i nā haumāna kānalua ke hō'ike aku i ko lākou na'au ma o ka pāheona, ma kahi o ka kama'ilio 'ana. Pēlā i alu like mai ai ke kumu a'oa'o a me nā limahana e a'e ma ke kula, a pēlā pū nā 'ohana haumāna i mea e ho'olālā ai i ala e ho'oponopono ai." "'O Ke Kula Waena o Waimea kekahi o 'ekolu mau kula ho'āmana aupuni, 'o Kamaile Academy o O'ahu a me nā kula kamali'i a me kula ha'aha'a o Kualapu'u ma Moloka'i kekahi nā kula o ka Ho'okāko'o Corporation. Ho'okumu 'ia i ka makahiki 2002, he 'oihana kū i ka 'auhau 'ole 'o Ho'okāko'o e mohala maila i mea e maka'ala a e ho'ololi aku i nā papahana ho'ona'auao ma nā kula 'ekolu. Mai loko mai o ia pu ulu kula aia nō he 15% o nā haumāna kula ho'āmana o ke aupuni. He mau Hawai'i ka hapalua a 'oi o nā haumāna ma ke Kula Waena O Waimea." 'Oiai 'o Ho'okāko'o ka mea kāko'o kālā no ko Waimea pu'u kālā 'o Mālama I Nā 'Ōpio, ua kākau 'o David Gibson, ke Po'o Kuhina o Ho'okāko'o, 'o Lydia Trinidad, ke Po'o Kumu o Kualapu'u, a me Rice i ka pu'u kālā 'elua mai OHA, a ua lilo nō. Hana mai ana 'o Ho'okāko'o i ka papahana 'o Ke Awa Ho'omalu ma Ke Kula Waena o Waimea a me Ke Kula 'o Kualapu'u ma ka Pu'u Kālā Kaiāulu maiā OHA o ka huina he $220,000. 1 waena o 'elua makahiki o ia pu'u kālā e ho'opi'i 'ia ana ka ho'ona'auao oiwi i kū ma ka aina, a me nā papahana hou aku no ka pono no'ono'o o nā keiki Hawai'i a me ko lākou mau 'ohana ma nā kula a 'elua. "I loko nō o ko mākou mana'olana nui, nele Ke Kula Waena 'o Waimea i nā lako 'ole e kāko'o ai ma ke 'ano kaiāulu a kula ho'i i nā haumāna a me nā 'ohana, i hiki ai ho'i ke ho'oholomua i ka ho'ona'auao a me ka pono no'ono'o o ke a'o 'ana. 'O ke kanaka ho'opili 'ohana i ho'olako 'ia e ka pu'u kālā 'o Ke Awa Ho'omalu ka mea nāna e alu like ana me nā haumāna, a ma ko lākou mau 'ohana iho, i mea e ho'olālā ai i nā papahana pilikino me ka mana'o e ho'opili aku iā lākou nei i nā papahana kula a me nā papahana kaiāulu a nā 'ohana i 'ike 'ole ai ma mua, no ka pono o nā keiki pākahi " wahi a Rice. "'Oiai he kula ho'āmana kālele Hawai'i mākou, ho'ohana mākou i nā pono e 'ho'oikaik i ko nā haumāna mākau, waiwai, a 'ike Hawai'i ho'i i hiki ai ke ho'okele aku i ke kula ki'eki'e a mau loa aku,' a he mahele ia o ko lākou mākia ma Waimea. Mea nui ke kāko'o o OHA i ka ho'omohala 'ana i nā papahana no nā haumāna a me nā 'ohana. ■

As the C0VID-19 pandemic eased and students began returning to in-person learning, there were more behoviorol issues. Educotor Pot Rice secured on OHA C0VID-19 lmpoct ond Response gront worth $60,000 enobling the school to hire o troumo informed ort teocher/counselor.- Photos: Jason tees