HONOLULU — The way ‘Eleu Choy remembers it, there was a long silence in the car. The University Lab middle schooler then said what had been on his mind: He was thinking of enrolling at Farrington for the 9th grade.
“I swear he kind of swerved a bit,” Choy said of Barney Choy’s reaction.
To be sure, it was an unusual request for a quiet boy from the Waialae area. His father, an environmental compliance supervisor at HECO, graduated from Saint Louis, his mother from Kamehameha, and his older sister, Bailey, was enrolled at Iolani. He would need an exemption out of Kalani’s district to enroll at the Kalihi school, which had caught his attention for its engineering academy…