The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-01-03


pear at the time and place fixed. The
accused may appear personally or b
counsel After hearing all testimony
produced, the Board shall take such ac-
ton as it may deem proper
] No teacher in the department, or who
( shall be hereafter anpointed, shall be
dismissed from the department, except
} for insubordination, immoral or un-
professional conduct, or evident unfit
ness for teaching. All promotions of
teachers shall be based solely on merit
and successful teaching. Nothing in
this section shall be construed to pre-
vent the Board from removing teachers
holding only special certificates or serv-
ing a probationary term.
! AGRICULTURAL WORK USELESS.
] This grand jury also reports that it
finds that the School Department had on
hand June 80, 1904, school hooks TO the
amount of SIo,325.o5. 1t seems to this
grand Jury that this is large amount
of books to be constantly carried by. the
Territory, and that the supply of school
books should be contracted for with some
responsible book house doing business
in Honolulu. We think this should )e
done in Justice to licensed booksellers
We further believe the practice of as
sessing school children for extra sup
plies such as music. bv teachers, should
be strictly prohibited. We find that
there are four music teachers in the
p, bic schools of Honolulu.
This grand jury further believes that
the Agricultural Department, now in
vogue in the public schools, is useless,
ard the time and expense could be used
to better advantage.
This grand jury further finds that the
Commissioners of Education have rare
| t., if ever, for many years, visited any
of the schools, or made any personal in
! quiries as to the conditions prevailing
in the schools or among the teachers
in fact, VIC find the public schools are
almost entirely under the control of
school agents. We recommend that this
be changed and the Department of Edu-
cation reorganized to the end tat there
'uay be more efficiency and a more tlcr-
Ough organization, from the head OF the
department down through the whole
system. The attention of the Legisla-
ture is respectfully called hereto.
We recommend further that merit
system be inaugurated. There should
be an examining board of at least three
competent persons, before whom all
teachers should be called for examina-
ton, and graded according to their eff
cheney Examinations should be written
and all questions proposed should be
kept absolutely secret until the examina-
ton actually begins-this to apply to all
teachers except. those holding regular
teachers certificates.
TEACHERS TOO OLD.
Your grand jury is further informed
| that there are now employed, in tht
| Department of Public Instruction, teach
ers of advanced age, who should be pro
vided for upon retirement. And il
therefore respectfully recommends thai
the Legislature appropriate a sufficient
, sum of money biennially, to be knowr
{ as a Teachers Relief and Pension
| Fund.-" all sums of money appropriated
Hereunder to be held by the Board O
/ Education, as trustees thereof. As tC
the DISPOSITION of such fund, it should
be further provided that the Boar;
might, by unanimous vote, retire and re
lieve from service any aged, infirm ol
disabled teacher, who had arrived q
the age Of fifty years, such infirmity ol
disability to be only determined upor
n competent evidence, and such retireC
a member to receive thereupon, as pen
sion, sum of money equal to one-ha
4 OF the amount of salary attached to tn,
/ position held by such teacher thrc,
:, years prior to the date OF retirement
: No such pension should be paid unles
. the person retired had been an act'v
r member OF the Department of Education
for fifteen years next preceding retire
ment.
: This grand jury further finds that rh
/, total number of pupils in the publ
: schools of Hawaii is I4467, of whol
: 2,o2o are Japanese and 1850 Chinese
: or 81 per cent of the whole number o
:, school children. Many of the Japanes
q pupils in the District of Honolulu ar
~ over the age of fifteen years, and 90 +
e our public schools merely for the pur
/ pose OF learning to speak the EngliS
II language. 1t is the sense of this gran
= jury that there should be some pla
9 formulated to segregate the Oriental
4 from the other pupils. We believe
Unfair that the advancement of EnGlis
4 speaking children should be obst. .ucte
e. by the presence of pupils OF torei2
h. tongue in attendance TO learn the Eng
liSh language and nothing more.
l. SEGREGATE RACES.
We also find, in a great many il
al stances, pupils of mixed nationality o,
ed cupying the same seat and at one des
Of We recommend, until some other an
I'd better plan can be formed. that Il
ir seats in the public schools be all sing
d. seats and the pupils thus segregated.
or This grand jury, through commit.
ly appointed therefor, has investigated Il
I'd condition of the public school ious
ID in and around Honolulu, and find. vi
u, few executions. that the school building
ne are in good condition, with the eAcr
ton, however, of lavatories and facil
ry ties for the procurement OF drinkiI
at water. In all the schools the pip
he have to drink from taps in the yard
Sc. which are surrounded with mud hole
n and we believe such conditions are L
by sanitary and unfit. CarG has not be
g. exercised in this regard, tven in I
no new school buildings. The new Roy
la School has neither water facilities
nm drinking DurDOSeS Or FIRE We haiie