The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-06-01

stand that their sOlicitude and sacrifices have
been of no avail! We feel that such a faulty
system should be brought to the public attention.
and that schools of this kind intended and pur-
porting to give instruction in the English Ian
guage to Hawaiian children should be estimated
at their just value for accomplishing this object.
Much more might be said in this connection,
with profit to all concerned, if duly regarded,
but want of space warns US to be brief.
OF the common schools, the report says that
during the past biennial period their operation
has not been characterized by that efficiency
which the friends of education would have de-
sired. 1t seems that there has been an actual
retrogression, and the two first and last reasons
assigned are probably the true ones, viz: diff
Guilty of procuring competent teachers, indiffer-
ence of parents, and lack of active supervision,
(p. 81 On page 10 of the report we find this
statement, which explains the matter ~satisfac-
toriIy "To the superiority of this class of
schools Government English Day Schools) and
to the great desire among Hawaiians to acquire
the English language, may be traced in a great
measure the Indifference of parents and others to
the interests Of the common schools of the
Kingdom
Before closing our notice of this report, we
think it will be well to give some figures and
statements which will remove any misapprehen-
sion that may have been caused in the minds of
the public by the perusal of an article on g IIa-
waiian emale Education,'' published in this
journal May Is. (These figures are from the
records of the Board, and therefore authentic.)
Pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled,
''An Act to repeal Chapter 10 of the Civil Code,
and to regulate the Bureau of Public Instruc-
t1on,'' approved, January 10th, 1865; Sections
80 and 81 of which Act read as follows, viz:
Sec. 80. "It shall be lawful for the Board of Education to
contribute, out of the funds at its disposal, towards the eSab-
Hawaiian boys in the English language, and other branches of
Sec. 81. THE Board eff Education shall also contribute, to
the greatest extent that the means at its disposal will allow,
towards the support of family schools for Hawaiian girls,
whether established by the Board, or by private individuals,
and in fostering such schools. it shall ENJOY the fullest discTe-
tiOnary power.'
Grants in aid of private boarding schools for
boys were inaugurated, and an impetus was
impaired to the establishment and extension of
boarding schools for Hawaiian girls by the pro-
mitigation of an ordinance by the Board, relative
to family boarding schools for girls, the substance
of which was as follows:
Notice is hereby given that the Board is prepared to grant
pecuniary aid TO private schools of this class Gor girls subject
TO the following conditiont LIST. Such schools are to be open
at all times to the visits of the Inspector General. who shall
inspect them at least once annually, and report to the Board
as TO their condition and efficiency. ID. No such family
school will be eligible for grants in aid, whether of its eStab-
lishment or maintenance, which does not give to the Board
satisfactory proof that it is likely to be a permanent insttu-
ton. Sd. When any application is made for a grant towards
the establishment of any such family school, il shall be accom-
panied with a clear and full statement of the expense incurred
in the erection, fitting up, and furnishing. The Board will
then be prepared to state the amount of its grant towards the
of the said expenses. 4th. Grants in aid of the
maintenance of the said family schools, will be given in the
form Of capitation fees, so much for each Hawaiian scholar.
5th. The annual capitation grants will be on the following
scale: For every Hawaiian scholar that has been in a family
school six months, ten dollars; one year, twenty dollars; two
or three years, twenty five dollars; four years or more, thirty
and Christmas, subject to the recommendation of the Inspec-
tor. 9th. No grant will be made in consideration of any
child for whom a sum is paid annually to the proprietor of the
from other sources, for board and education, of more
fifty dollars, (S5OOO nor if there have been less than
an average of ten scholars in the said school, during the six
previous TO the visit of the Inspector. 9TH. The
course of instruction in every family school shall comprise at
least, reading and writing in English or Hawaiian, arithmetic,
he elements of grammar and geography, and some branch of
industrial work. And the report of the Inspector as TO the
efficiency of the said instruction, shall be grounded on an e-
of the individual scholars. Sth. The Board must
De satisfied by the report of the Inspector, that the internal
as conduce TO the cleanliness, health and morals of its
inmates. 9th. Convinced that religion is the basis of all efec-
i've moral training, the Board expects that such schools will
be conducted on Christian principles. But it leaves to the
directors the fullest discretion as TO the form Of Christianity
hey may feel it right TO nculcate."
Agreeably with the ordinance above cited, the
amounts have been paid by the Board
IF Education, in aid of the establishment and
maintenance of private boarding schools for
iris, viz