The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-09-07
TEACHERS TALK Of
EVILS OF IWILEI.
It's Terrible Influence
Upon the School
Children.
A LITTLE LEkVEh LELvEKS ALL.
ONE BAD PUPIL VERY OFTEN
DEMoRALIZEs AN EN-
TIRE SCHOOL.
Two Of the Foremost Women Teach.
ers of the City Relate Some
of Their Experiences
Enforce the Law.

A Republican reporter called upon
two OF the women teachers Of Honolulu
yesterday TO inquire their views of the
evil effects of the Iwilei pens of vice
upon the school children Of the city
These two women. who will be desig
mated as Mrs. A. and Miss B. are ex-
perienced teachers, having had several
years experience III one of the states
before becoming teachers in Hawaii.
Before answering your question |
want TO express my approval of The
Republicans course in exposing and
endeavoring TO destroy the evil dens at
Iwilei," said Mrs. A. when asked what
she thought of the effect of such a
place upon school children. What
was said in this mornings Republican
about the effect of such place upon
school children in its demoralizing in
fiuence is only too true. Children of
the Iwilei neighborhood, who go to
school at Palama or any other district,
who have witnessed the awful scenes
at the Iwilei places Of vice will tell
other children about what they have
seen and no one can calculate the harm
that will be done.
1T is a peculiar thing, but school
children generally look upon bad boy
or bad girl as a sort of hero. Every
old teacher will tell you this. / might
relate one experience of my own III the
CITY where taught before coming TO
Honolulu was assigned 20 school
In the slum part of the city. You can
know the neighborhood when L tell you
that the school was known a. the dog
town school. | had one boy in that
school who was probably the worst
pupil ever had under me. lie was
child of the slums. and WAS Il daily wit
ness of all manner of scenes of vice and
wickedness. The other pupils were the
children of poor but respectable par
,nts in the main, and yet do you know
ffat boy was sort OF hero IN that
,.sLool and was looked up to and emu
,ttsd by the other pupils He caused
roe more trouble than all the rest and
not oaly that, but he caused other chill
aren TO be unruly who would in hisab-
,.ence have been good and orderly
uupiIs. Why, do you know there are
no greater gossipers than school chill
,ren. Particularly in going to and
from school do they tell each other
what they have seen and heard talked
about"
.No one can calculate the evil TO the
school children of Honolulu by the
continuance of the dens of vice at lwi-
lei.- said Miss Il. "Just think how
scattered over the city are the young
women and girls who work IN the
laundry over there. These girls who
are of school age may attend half a
dozen different schools in the city, and
each one will tell her companions what
she saw over by the laundry. | think
IL is terrible reflection upon the moral
standard of the officials of this terri
tory that they will permit such con-
,dition of affairs to exist.
aAnd speaking of the effects of one
x,uoil upon school, l want TO relate
N incident in the last school III which
7 was a teacher in the state from which
= ~ne. / was teaching in the Blank
sire ss school. there being eight rooms
l., The, school. One of the teachers had
no dis. u ,pline in her room and that un-
r,,,y ON Q affected every other room in
the sch,,Cd. Her lack of discipline
made discipline in the other rooms
rsry diffi.Clt- The children would
set together at recess or following
s.hool and tho, Sc in this room where
there was no dis. s.'ipline would tell the
nnn,ls Of the otheA- rooms about what
they had done that day and hS how they hey
nau a., ,bs nunils in the other rooms
would attempt the same pranks or un-
1T Is just so with one bad boy or
Siri in a room. They influence aiI ~" .he
other children To follow their example.
And children are so initiative you
nnow @ One child who has witnessed
,ha sights of iniauity and vice at iwi.
lei viii do untold harm in any il:..sd sea0OI !
$50 The Republican. backed by the
Christian Chr people OF the city, win con,
tinue its fight against this evil place
until the authorities sre compelled 70
enforce the law which would ciose IL
up"
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