I have serious doubts about the intellect of public school teachers in Hawaii when they ignore the massive, wasteful, super expensive and antiquated DOE bureaucracy in their pleadings for higher pay. Clearly, tax dollars for education are being systematically diverted by Democrats to their campaign signwaving buddies at the HGEA and UPW at the expense of actual schools and the #1 school resource: teachers. Simple kindergarten level math shows how downsizing the wasteful DOE bureaucracy would free up more than enough money to compensate government school teachers quite well, based on merit of course. But these HSTA union teachers either don't recognize the wasted funds on excessive bureaucracy or they are too cowardly to expose the DOE unions. Heck, classrooms would all be air conditioned if teachers led the charge to reform the wasteful DOE. So until teachers come around, I don't want to hear any more whining from them.