Evidently, Lindsey doesn't approve of critical thinking or freedom of expression, at least not when it comes to the faculty. The Kamehameha faculty were not allowed to meet with the court-appointed fact finder on campus, and even had their opening day prayer service canceled despite having gone out of their way to invite the trustees and assuring them that no one would use the occasion for any purpose other than prayer. Teacher contracts were issued just days before the school year began this fall, which is inexcusable. This should have been done at least by March. Besides being important from the standpoint of the school's ability to plan, it is the decent thing to do.
Teachers have families, mortgages and other obligations which make such uncertainty tortuous.
No school should treat its employees with such contempt and disrespect. Among the fired were people with up to 35 years of loyal service and outstanding evaluations. Program changes sometime need to be made, but the heavy-handedness of these changes not only was insensitive to the terminated employees, but terribly destructive of school morale as well. Many employees who were not terminated are now looking elsewhere for an educational environment built on trust and respect. Treatment of students Earlier this year, Lindsey had the student body president pulled out of class and taken by Principal Tony Ramos to the trustees' Kawaiahao Plaza offices, where she interrogated him for more than two hours.