It's Hawaii nei and the cost of living in "paradise" has always been rising, while the wages, like the chances of the state ever allowing a Lottery to happen, slowly shrinks year after year!  Teaching in public schools is not something anyone should take lightly or consider it "just a job" as it's much more than that, it's an opportunity to mold our children, giving them the chance to dream "great dreams" and to shape future generations of young adults, that will take their rightful place beside us, out in the world.

Being a teacher, means you are a "surrogate parent" in lieu of the one's too busy working to help their children learn at home.  As teachers will have to deal with teen angst, puberty issues, growing pains and more in their classrooms; all the while trying to also be philosophers, artists, role models and more for their students.  Many who enter teaching, find they don't have the passion to continue to teach, year after year and move on to other careers.