Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-09-07
schools. As matter of fact, the per.


centage of All Fats and Kimuras in
the higher grade public schools in lilo.
nolulu Is no larger than in the private
schools. This is the result OF q nat.
urA selection based on ability 10 speak
the English language - proper refu
sal on the part of intelligent teachers
to allow children, with whom English
Ia tue mother tongue, to be held back
by those who have first to learn the
medium OF communication before they
indulge in book knowledge.
This natural selection. based upon
an absolutely just basis OF the chiljs
capacity is carried out very generally
in the public schools of oahu, but, as
previously stated in this paper, the
general Indifference to the public
school has resulted in condition of
insufficient appropriation which pre-
vents such an intelligent plan in tho
schools OF the outer districts.
It would bs manifestly unfair for
any child who speaks the English Ian.
guage to be held back to await anoth'
ers ability to master the most ordi-
nary words of speech. At the Same
time II requires a corps of teachers
with good intelligence, interest in
their work, and fair discretion to car.
~ out such a program and at the
same time preserve such discipline In
the schools that no children need suf.
fer in their education or morals. Such
teachers the schools of the Territory
possess In some instances but not In
all by any means. The cause for tho
shortcoming of the Territorial school
Is the policy of keeping the Territor-
al educational system in q state OF
poverty, and this policy is the direct
result of the influence vouched for by
the Advertiser-the private school is
for the American children; any old
thing Is good enough for what's left.
The Bulletin can point to common
school teachers with whom a lone tend
er white child would be safe amid a
cloud of aliens. And 1t could give
instances of others from whom K
would be remarkable If anything edu-
catiCnally good came. The former eX.
lists as a result Of his or her self
sacrifice and the hope that some day
, the Territory Of Hawaii will use a lit
tie American intelligence in dealing
with its public schools. The other, the
creature of the Advertiser policy pure
and simple, Is a credit to none least
OF all to Territory that puts itself
, down as progressive.
The extraordinary sense OF race dis
tinctIon and moral preservation which
does not fear the alien influence of an
alien servant with a child twelve hours
out of twenty-four, but raises n cry OF
protest against association with alien
children under a good teacher for six
hours Of the DAY, is one of those ex-
hibitions of human nature that are be-
yond the reach OF sensible analysis.
The private school has been the great
est promoter of race prejudice in the
islands. and the misfortune is that II
has served to retard the progress OF
the natural Americanizer, the public
school.
What the people need is, not less in
terest in the private school but prop
err development OF the free public
school. That's the policy that Govern
or Carter has taken up. 1t is the policy
OF common sense and ordinary patriot.
ism. As a product Of the public school
| himself he Is pretty fair sample.