The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-29

lutions:-
Whereas, The attention of this
Association has been called to the
facts in regard TO the government
common schools of the Kingdom,
that is, schools in Hawaiian taught
by Hawaiians, number, according
to the report of 1884, 1l5 schools,
with 119 teachers and 2Sl1 pupils,
as compared with the al select
schools with their 100 teachers in
English and 3499 pupils; and to
the reports of increasing non-at-
tendance in the outer districts, the
inefliciency of Hawaiian teachers,
and the lamentable Generalization
of Hawaiian children of school age
growing up without suitable instruc-
ton;
Ind Whereas, The multiplication
and increasing efficiency of schools
taught in English is matter of
great congratulation in view of the
difficulties to be overcome, the want
of suitable dwellings for teachers,
the almost utter lack of congenial
society, the changing character of
the population, the variety of Ian
guages spoken, the absence of any
inducement to well qualified and
experienced teachers to engage in
such rough and elementary work;
Ind Whereas, The pure Hawaiian
element of the school population,
constituting nearly one-half of the
pupils in the Government schools, is
now by the disproportionate atten.
ton paid to English speaking schools
in danger of being virtually pushed
aside and these schools in Hawaiian
disbanded as no longer a proper
and needful element in the govern
mental system of education:
Therefore, This Convention of
Teachers desires to put on record its
testimony and conviction as en-
bodied in the following resolution:
Resolced, (D That in the opin-
ion of this Association the existing
condition of affairs in this Kingdom
is not such as to warrant the dis
continuance as yet of purely Ha-
waiian schools;
(2) That in behalf of the Ha-
waiians themselves, in danger of
being crowded out of their birth
right in the strife for merely COM
mercial gains, there should be spe-
cial attention paid to the preparation
of teachers for the purely Hawaiian
schools and the training of Hawaiian
children in moral character, and in
telligent citizenship through the
medium of their own language;
(3) That this Convention, con-
vinced of the increasing Importance
of an annual gathering of the teach
ers, hereby respectfully urges upon
the Board of Education the ap-
pointment of normal institute
for the next year, to be held
for at least one week of~,fhe
school year, i9Ibnolulu, i9 for
the benefit 9tlinglish schools, and
y - p under the direction of the
Inspector General of Schools, the
attendance of teachers to be con-
sidered part of the service for which
compensation is made by the gov
ernment, and that similar institutes
for Hawaiian school teachers of the
Government common schools, and
for all applicants seeking such
position, be held at the expense of
the Government in suitable localities
on the other islands under the same
direction;
(4) That'in view of the desirable
lity of having the same music fami-
liar to all classes of the population,
the Board of Education berequested
to prepare and publish as soon as
possible, Howaiian Songbook for
general use in all the schools, to be
supplemented by other music books
considered desirable by the teachers
in their instructions;
90 That this Association approve
of the object presented in the in
PRODUCTION of instruction of Hygie-
mic Physiology in the schools of this
kingdom, calling special attention
to the injurious influence of narco-
tics and stimulants upon the ply
sical system of children.
The resolutions were taken up
and discussed separately.
In support of the introduction of
books on hygienic physiology, he
cited the remark made by Prus-
sian statesman when Prussia had
been overcome, that if the nation
was to rise, the process must begin
with the children. Accordingly he
did begin with the children, and
after a few years of common school
education coupled with military
drill, Prussia had gained first rank
among the nations of Europe.
Mr.. Moore thought that, although
the law does provide a school for