Kalihi Elementary School

My child goes attends the Head-​Start pre-​school here and my two stars aren’t for them. In fact, if head start had its own Unilocal page, that’d be an easy 4.5 stars. My review, however, is for a few of the staff, faculty members or whatever they are to the school who deal with the older kids.
So, being a parent of a head-​start student, we’re allowed to pick our children up to as early as we want. Since I finish school early on some days, I come around lunch time (middle of or after while they are lining up) for the big kids and on several occasions, I have seen and heard some children being yelled at by an adult. I get that those kids were probably out of line and not listening (all schools have a couple bad apples) but I have never seen or heard any adult speak to a child in a tone where I felt scared for them or had the feeling like, «I hope my kid tells me if someone ever speaks to them like that!» It’s a tone that has a lot of pidgin-​mokeness to it where your grumpy relative is about to give you spanks if you don’t listen, if that makes sense. It just runs me the wrong way & is very disturbing. I’ve been wanting to speak with Mr. Pila about it, but every time I see him he is speaking with a student so I don’t want to bother.
Bottom line is, I don’t believe the teachers or education are bad, but it’s just the additional staff who supervise the kids that I’m a bit concerned of. Again, I understand if the kids are getting out of hand but still… Maybe a different approach, perhaps? Whether they address this or not, most likely not, my child will never attend grade school here.

Nice school on top the hill. friendly staff would love for my kids to go there