Waianae High School

Waianae High School has improved how they do school and we are seeing many positive things taking place. If you read the students comments on this website you will know that this is a great school and we are going to be the best school in Hawaii.
--Submitted by a parent

Teachers are more interested in student getting an education instead of student not paying attention. Teachers makes education more interesting for student to learn.
--Submitted by a parent

i go to this school and its a very good school to attend no one knows what we feel when people say that we arn't good enough and that just makes us want to strive for excellance even more
--Submitted by a student

I wish to state that it is not the school that is failing the kids, it is the education they are receiving. The No Child Left Behind is in no way helping these kids. I have a child in the school and have watched him pass classes that in no way he should have. You bring it up to the teachers and they themselves give you dumb answers. What ever happened to teachers being there for the kids and actually teaching them, not just passing them because the government says they have to. By the time my son graduates, he will in no way have all he needs to even read or write. It is pretty sad. As much time as we put in to trying to help him we do not have the back up from the teachers.
--Submitted by a parent

Hey I agree with the latest entry. There are many successful graduates of Waianae High School. Success is based on how hard you are willing to work at it and how motivated you are. I have family members who graduated from private school, not doing much now and others who graduated from WHS and are professionals. Individuals make the difference for themselves not necessarily the school because there are too many other resources out there to help with advancing in reading and math. We know our daughter is a Jr. in taking AP Calculus & AP British Lit., 3rd yr Japanese all at WHS.
--Submitted by a parent

This is a great school and I don't care about what anybody else thinks. You need to go to this school to truly feel what we do. I honestly get a great education, have great opportunities for extra curricular activities and I think its worth having others frown upon us because they see the negativity in things and aren't optimistic enough.
--Submitted by a student

This school is known to have a bad reputation and I think its the time where us students show them that they are wrong! Honestly, its a good school. Waianae High is kicking it up a notch, meaning that we are making very positive changes- for example, our new bell schedule and our new hukilau policy. Our teachers are trying to make Waianae High a better place for our education, and I noticed that. Waianae is not so bad as people make it sound.
--Submitted by a student

I believe that there exists a fundamental flaw in the education system that passes along students and awards mediocre performance. My niece is a Senior with a 4.0 at Waianae and for the last two years I have seen first hand how just showing up to class, doing your homework and being able to outperform the other students just gets you an A. However she is in no way ready for college and her writing, is that of a 6th grader, which is probably where the public school kids on the Westside begin to see an education system that is failing them. Parents should be outraged that the dumbing down of your children is allowing them to make poor decision and give up. Children deserve every advantage we can give them and the fact that this state allows for its future to be marginalized is sad and pathetic.
--Submitted by a parent

Waianae High School is a very great school, for my child. It may be a little raough but it had its great qualities. Hope you other parents can see for your self just how much i feel for this high school. And I also think that instead of putting down this school we should ecourage it and the kids that attend this school. We need to help them see the good in life and all the things that they can achieve. Because its not the school that make you somebody its your self that makes that decision.
--Submitted by a parent

We have such a good school. I am so proud of it. There are so many opportunities to do extra curricular activites and all the students are respectful to one another. Although we do have our share of arguments and fights overall waianae is the bomb! lol.
--Submitted by a student