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• タコパ
• 2026/01/18 (Sun) 11:43
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I am a parent considering transferring my child to Montessori 3rd grade starting August 2026. I have confirmed with the school that they have quite a few vacancies and are looking for students in all grades. it seems that the school has up to 6th grade and then 30% of the students are accepted and go on to Punahou middle and the rest are Mid-pac and Public. I know there is a difference in academic ability, but I wonder if they can keep up with their studies if they are accepted from middle school to punahou or Iolani … Of course, I know it is impossible to take the middle school entrance exam without a tutor.
I would like to know the actual situation of children who went from Montessori to Punahou or Iolani in the middle school. Thank you in advance.

• minami
• 2026/01/24 (Sat) 17:47
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Nice to meet you, my oldest entered Punahou from middle from MCS about 5 years ago.
At that time, about 80% of MCS graduates were accepted to Punahou, and my second child took the Punahou exam from MCS the year before last and was not accepted.
That year, 11 students took the Punahou exam and only 4 passed. Therefore, the older child is in Punahou and the younger child is in another middle school.
To enter Punahou middle school from MCS, you must have a Tutor. All of us had a Tutor. The school says it is not necessary, but it was impossible without a Tutor.
Since I entered Punahou Middle, I have had a lot of difficulties every year. The kids coming up from the bottom of Punahou are really smart. The kids coming up from the bottom at Punahou are really smart, a little surprising.
At MCS, my older son was able to come in at the top of his class, but once he entered Punahou, he felt inferior, and he was shocked.

We can't play tennis, swimming, or soccer in the MCS facilities; PE itself, we raised them in a situation where there was no place to do PE. There is no ground.
I grew up in a small group and did not notice the difference in academic ability. Now I am struggling a lot in Punahou. The MCS graduates who entered Punahou with me
are also not at the average level. I realized that there is such a big gap in academic achievement after I joined Punahou.
As others have said, many families at MCS have siblings attending together, and it was a very small, non-competitive, and relaxed environment.
I feel that if I only knew MCS as a school, I would have become an MCS believer. I think I became a believer in MCS because of the totally unfounded rumors that "MCS is a popular school, if you are in MCS, you can get into Punahou, Iolani from the middle, the acceptance rate is high, and even after getting into Punahou, Iolani, MCS graduates are at the top" and so on.
I also believed this until my two children took the entrance exam and went to other schools, but the reality is completely different.
MCS graduates do not reach the average level of Punahou. The percentage of MCS to Punahou acceptance is already below 30%. In fact, the numbers are clear in the school's announcement. Currently, the acceptance rate continues to drop dramatically, so it is not released publicly, but only announced to current students via email at graduation.
As a parent, I also regret that I believed the rumors within MCS and believed the fictions inside MCS such as 90% of Punahou pass and that you can be very high ranked even after entering Punahou. It seems like brainwashing.
In fact, 80% of the kids who go from Punahou to IVY or equivalent are from Kinder.

As well as the facilities of MCS schools, without being a weird MCS believer, and with an eye on reality, Elementary does not recommend MCS.

• blue sky
• 2026/01/25 (Sun) 10:53
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My child attended MCS in preschool. When it was time to go from preschool to kinder, I took the Punahou and Iolani exams and failed both.
They did not stay at MCS and moved to another school. 8 students from MCS Pre took the Punahou Kinder exam and 3 were accepted. Iolani had 4 students take the test and 2 were accepted. I had heard that Kinder had a high turnout, but we did not even get an alternate at all.
minami's story inside MCS, I heard it many times in my 2 years of pre. （ LOL ） Indeed, ！
many parents of MCS alumni have their children attending or have several siblings attending, so there is some kind of false "internal MCS agaea myth" being spread ！
Punahou likes MCS.................. （ lol ）
The actual percentage of students going to Punahou and Iolani is much lower than the 78% on the website. One of my co-workers has a child who failed the 4th Punahou exam from MCS and was moved up from the 7th Punahou Waitlist and is in the bottom 20% of Punahou students. I heard that some of my friends who entered Punahou from MCS are struggling to reach the average. I think they are the same age as your child.

The preschool was good, including the teachers. However, I think that Elementary has been slipping away to other schools not only because of the facilities, but also because of the quality of the teachers, the decline in academics, and too few students in the same grade level. I am glad I moved my child from Kinder to another school and put her in an environment full of classmates in the same grade level. The Montessori pedagogy itself is only adaptable from age 1 to 6, so I'm not sure there is any point in being at Montessori after that. The only Montessori elementary in Hawaii is MCS because Montessori education is not adapted in elementary.
However, the preschool didn't teach much academically, but my child enjoyed it very much, so I have no regrets ！.

• MCS ALUMNIのママ
• 2026/01/29 (Thu) 12:04
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My son graduated from MCS and went from Middle to Punahou and graduated last year. He is now attending a state college in the Mainland.
Oh no, you can't compare Punahou to MCS. To be clear, MCS graduates have a very hard time getting to the top in Punahou.
The "pure gold Punahou kids" （ from Kinder ） are almost always at the top. At Punahou, we call the kids from Kinder "Punahou Kids".
80% of the students who went on to the Ivy League and the most prestigious colleges were also from Kinder.
MCS is a Montessori school, so academics are appropriate, and from about the 4th grade onward, children aiming for Punahou Middle must attend cram school or Tutor.
Don't expect to get into Punahou or Iolani just by taking MCS classes, the SSAT is very revealing.
Punahou, you need to be at least 90% on the SSAT after all these years of academic improvement.
When my son took the Middle, he got 80%. Anyway, Punahou and Iolani are not just the top two.
Once you get in, it's a matter of whether you can keep up with the Punahou kids or not. Anyway, there was a huge difference between the two schools, so as other parents have said, it is true that I had a hard time studying after I entered Punahou.

• チルチル
• Yesterday 09:10
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I had my son attend Monte until 6th grade and took the Punahou, Iolani, Mippa, and Merinol entrance exams, and he was rejected by Punahou and Iolani and is now attending Mippa.
To be honest, I had heard that 90% of the students could go to Punahou or Iolani if they attended Monte, and the school claimed that Monte's education was advanced and comparable to Punahou and Iolani without a tutor. However, when I took the public test （ the national test and the SSAT ） I found that the Monte students were not at that level, but at best Mippa and Merinol.
I was so surprised and impatient that I rushed to the individual tutor and Takahashi Juku. By the time I realized it, there were 8 months until the exam. I could never catch up with Punahou and Iolani level.
In the school year my child attended, 13 students took the exam and 3 were accepted to Punahou or Iolani, and 10, including my child, were not.
As others have said, many of the families who attend Monte are Monte believers （ really believing faith ）. It was my fault for being so relaxed and believing what they said and what the school claimed, but by the time I realized it, it was already too late.
The same people who come to speak at the Elementary panel every year as parents of alumni, the same people. For a long time now. Monte is a laid back, small school. The community is small because of the small number of families and the small number of students, and the information is skewed so that it is too late, as it is for me.
If you are considering Elementary at Monte, you will need tutors, etc. from 4th grade at the latest if you want to go to Punahou or Iolani from the middle.

• iolani 親です
• 2026/02/20 (Fri) 21:20
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My child attends iolani. We started in 1st grade from Waitlist.
iolani is on Waitlist until 5th if you are in Waitlist in Kinder. if there is an Opening Spot, you are approached in order.
Every year, there are around 100 students accepted （ They claim 96, but some years there are 100 ） There are 40 other Waitlists, but some students quit, so
Quite often there are almost 40 Waitlists somewhere during Elementary. The current situation is that we are able to enroll.
This time, the 4th recruitment is quite rare. However, as the Lord said, there are currently only 86 students in the grade that will be the 4th this summer, and there are a lot of students who want to go to Punahou who did not get into Punahou in Kinder. There are also some students who move to Punahou if they pass the exam. （ Every year several students take the exam and about 3-5 pass ）
Other than that, there are students who move back to their respective countries, families who find it difficult to pay the tuition fees, etc. Some students leave every year because they don't fit iolani.
When my child took the kinder exam, iolani was booming and there were many families who chose iolani if they were accepted to both punahou and iolani, but recently, it seems that there are many who are accepted to both and go to punahou, and more than half of the 40 students on the iolani kinder waitlist are accepted to kinder. More than half of the 40 waitlisted students in Kinder at iolani have been accepted to Kinder.
All private schools are struggling to survive. Some schools are even disappearing.
As a parent of a current student, I feel that iolani is now in a situation where they cannot apply until the 6th grade and have to change.

• ヤマダ
• 2026/02/19 (Thu) 14:17
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You could try an eSIM ？
For example, Nomad eSIM offers 30 days/5GB for $10.
I'm sure there are many other cheaper places if you look around, but just FYI ！.

• nuiloamama
• 2026/02/19 (Thu) 16:52
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I always use
JapanConnect eSIM.
15 days, 10G, 1870 yen.
You will receive a QR code when you apply.
You can put it in your phone while you are in Hawaii
and use it as soon as you arrive in Japan.

Please search eSim for various plans.

• 戌年
• 2026/02/20 (Fri) 01:18
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Yamada-san, nuiloamama
Thanks for the advice ！ I will search Nomad eSIM and JapanConnect eSIM immediately.

• inumama
• 2025/07/30 (Wed) 17:42
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My dog has been barking more since he became a senior.
I play relaxing music when I go out. Loudly scolding a dog when he barks is counterproductive. They think they are being cared for.
I recently purchased Pet Hemp oil for dogs and have been experimenting with it. It seems to be good for reducing excitement and relaxing them, as well as for appetite loss.
I think it might be worth a try to help senior dogs with their day/night cycle.
I think 100% organic products are better.
You can buy it on Amazon and other places.
I have only just started using it, but it seems to relax them somewhat.

• Dog lover
• 2025/07/31 (Thu) 15:14
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Search Amazon for Anti barking dog collar or Citronella dog bark collar or something like that and you'll find a lot of stuff. If it is reported to the Humane Society, you will receive a letter and if the complein continues, you will be fined, or you can do something about it and ask the neighbors how they are doing these days ？ in a low and apologetic way to show that you are concerned and that it is effective.
I took a simple snack, gave them my phone number, and apologized to them to let me know if they were being too noisy, and it subsided.

• ワンコ
• 2025/08/01 (Fri) 16:44
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It is an aging behavior and is not expected to improve.
If he is 11 years old, he is a senior and the only way is to consult a veterinarian.

He needs care just like humans do.
My dog was the same way as a senior, but there was no solution.
First the barking, then the wandering around the room, and on and on it goes.
So we had no choice but to make sure that the family members took turns to stay at home until his last day.
During those years, family trips were not possible, and we did not eat out.

Please take care of her until her last days.

• TOP
• 2026/01/23 (Fri) 11:34
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There were quite a few complaints about my parents' dog in Japan, and he had surgery to remove his vocal cords, but the surgery failed and he was lost during the surgery.

• ワンちゃん
• 2026/02/01 (Sun) 00:36
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Do you know what he is barking at? ？ You could try putting up curtains so he can't see outside as much as possible, or close the windows so he can't hear outside as much as possible. Do you have a crate or something that he can usually stay calm in? ？ It is also a good idea to have enrichment toys for him to play with while you are away from home.
Also, I recently found this relaxing music and started using it. My dog is sleeping calmly while I am away from home.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxreuAkYo8lypgG8-MFIM3A

• にゃんこズ
• 2025/09/13 (Sat) 14:05
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This may sound funny, but I always check the car behind me and if I stop and I think the car behind me is going too fast, I pump the brakes. And I always keep a good distance from the car in front of me. I would be so angry if I was rear-ended. And it scares me.

• つぶあん
• 2025/09/16 (Tue) 21:01
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I have lived in Hawaii for 10 years. I have been thinking exactly the same thing lately. In all the decades I have lived in Japan, I have never seen a car accident, but in Hawaii I see them several times a year. This year there were two. One of them was a hit-and-run accident in which the driver who rear-ended the car ran out of control like a drunk driver and hit the car several times with great force. I think Hawaii's driving etiquette is getting worse every year.
And I think the number of private cars in Hawaii has increased so much in the last few years that it has become a big problem. As a resident myself, I used to think it wasn't so bad, but nowadays when I go outside, I often smell gasoline in the air and I hesitate to go out. Although this is Hawaii, the environment that should be a paradise, a world-class paradise, is being damaged. If this continues, not only will the quality of life for the residents suffer, but it will also keep tourists away. Tourists do not visit Hawaii to breathe dirty air or to be trapped in traffic jams. I strongly believe that unless decisive action is taken, Hawaii will face serious environmental and economic decline.

• iv
• 2025/09/17 (Wed) 14:44
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I was once rear-ended by a police car while waiting at a stoplight. It was minor, but I was surprised that such a thing could happen.

• KAN
• 2025/09/17 (Wed) 16:26
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＃ Thanks for the info, 10nyankoz. I've started pumping as much as kudos to you too.
#11 Tsubuan, thanks for the information. I drove for more than 10 years in Japan and never had an accident. I think most of the locals here would run away even if hit. I think the problem is that they have very low morals. After I was hit, the other driver ran away.

#12IV, that is a valuable experience. I was at an intersection last year where an ambulance and a civilian car were rear-ending each other ．

• カニ2
• 2025/09/18 (Thu) 23:46
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My husband is an ex-police. He says
① the issuance of licenses is too easy and many people have poor driving skills. I doubt they have a few hours of voluntary skill practice
② Hawaii is crawling with criminals. They can't go to jail so they are released immediately. People with 100 arrests are walking around.
③ There are a lot of immigrants here and they don't speak the language, which is another reason why employment is not stable
④ Hawaii is multicultural with many immigrants. This is not Japan. There is no courtesy here. Expectations will only lead to disappointment.
⑤ You are the only one who can protect yourself. ⑥ This is not Japan, don't expect too much
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• POPS
• 2026/02/10 (Tue) 13:31
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Hello. I have been in Hawaii for a long time and have children, but my mom friends only interacted with me during my child-rearing years, and none of them are still friends now that my children are grown. I have heard that there are moms around me who continue to have close relationships even after the distance has passed, but I am not very good at that kind of thing, so unless I hear from them, it's spontaneous. When my children were young, my own life revolved around them, so I tended to focus on my mom friends, but now that they are grown, I have found my own hobbies and my friendships have expanded from there. I don't really like the typical tea ＆ sit down and chat over lunch, so it was ideal for me to be able to approach someone at my own pace while sharing my own hobbies and enjoyment together, which was also a low hurdle. Also, you say yourself that you have a difficult personality, but what was your family environment like growing up? ？ Did you grow up in an environment that made it difficult for your friends to be themselves, such as parents putting unreasonable hopes or pressure on you or being more strict than necessary when you were a child ？? I was like that. I grew up in an environment where my parents always had strange expectations of me and I couldn't express my own personality, so I would always ask others to meet my basic needs that I would normally ask of my parents, and I would repeatedly end relationships when my expectations were different from theirs. I would fade out when I saw something I didn't like, and I would be sensitive to other people's words, but it was completely the same old me who would impose my own ideals of what I wanted the other person to be and what I hoped he or she would be like before I knew them properly, then become displeased and leave when things went a little different. Now I realize this vicious cycle and realize that this personality was not my fault but due to the environment in which I was brought up ＆ After accepting this, I have gradually changed and it has become easier to live. However, it is also true that I spent several decades of my life quite painfully because of this. For this reason I commented because I couldn't think of it as someone else's problem, but if I'm totally misguided, please let me through.

• 友達
• 2026/02/14 (Sat) 21:38
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Hobbyist
I used to think nothing of it, but in recent years
when I realized that I have very few friends
I felt very sad, so I posted this.
Ideally, I would like to find my own hobbies and meet good friends
there.
Thank you for your opinion 😊.

• 友達
• 2026/02/14 (Sat) 21:41
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Banana
Thank you for your opinion😊
I will take action so that one day I can meet a friend
with whom I can be natural.

• 友達
• 2026/02/14 (Sat) 21:52
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Pops
I think it's ideal that you find a hobby and your friendships expand from there
. I sincerely
wish I could meet such friends.
I don't think there is anything wrong with my family environment, but I have realized recently that I have always tried to be a good person
because I didn't want people to hate me
and then I got tired of it and kept making excuses to stay away from people.
I felt that you have accepted yourself and are now living a wonderful life.
I will try to face myself so that one day I can be like that too.
Thank you for your valuable opinion 😊
I decided to go.

• POPS
• 2026/02/15 (Sun) 07:34
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I believe that awareness is the most important first step, so from now on, if you find yourself thinking, "What is that ？" or "Why is this ？", please take a look at your own feelings, desires, and frustrations. You will definitely learn something from it, and I am sure you will change for the better little by little. I read in a psychology book that most people spend their whole lives blaming others for everything without realizing it. ！ The most important thing is not to be stressed or disillusioned with yourself, but to accept and cherish the fact that "that is fine" and spend your time with it.

• Doge
• 2026/01/29 (Thu) 15:27
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Topy
That's a problem. Mopeds and this issue would be different. You should tell your landlord about the annoying noise. If it doesn't change after you tell them, consider moving out.
Landlords will seriously consider it when tenants are leaving more and more.

• ABC
• 2026/01/29 (Thu) 16:04
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I'll report this to my landlord because I like my current room, the location and the price, and I don't want to move as much as possible. When this noise started, the dog from the house next door was barking in response, but he hasn't been barking lately.

• ハワイ大好き
• 2026/01/29 (Thu) 17:32
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You should record it first ！ they won't take up the conversation without proof. I was also bothered by this for many years, FYI.

• John
• 2026/01/29 (Thu) 23:34
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This is a counter-prescription for when I was in Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, noise is out between 10:00 and 7:00.
Hawaii is the same way, so
report it to the management company and if it hasn't improved,
it's perfectly acceptable to call the police.
Also, as other users have said, preservation of evidence is important and
necessary when notifying the noise source of a breach of contract.
Also, nationality depends on race, but there is a good chance that
the police will only come once and
it will stop. In my case, the landlord terminated the contract quickly after two reports.
However, if it is discovered that you are the one who reported the incident, the same thing can happen to you, and you can get upset
because of your race and nationality.
The strongest recording is a video with a clock and date and time.

• ABC
• 2026/01/30 (Fri) 17:42
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Thank you all for the adbus ！
I have to record it and leave evidence, and the noise standard has to be exceeded. And it could go to court ！ ？
If it goes that far, this case may be at the unpleasant sound level of noise.