The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-26

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[ therefore follows that If tie places
where children meet for purposes OF in
truction in languages other than Eng.
ish, can properly be considered iasti,
utions of learning or places of primary
Instruction, then such place of meeting
or such purpose would be a private
school within the strict meaning OF
Section 2os.
Your Department has no duties as TO
over the instruction of such
children at such hours except as pro.
vided by the sections hereinabove re
ferred to. Even admitting, for the
sake of argument. that the sections re-
ferred to are enforcible, We would call
your attention TO the language of Sec
ton 209, relative to the qualifications
Of persons seeking to teach private
to wit:
If the applicant possesses the neces-
sary qualifications to become teacher
of the school proposed, the Department
shall issue permit authorizing the es-
Enlistment Of such school"
This evidently contemplates the es-
adjustment Of various kinds of pri-
vate schools, the qualification to be
possessed by the teachers thereof to be
dependent upon the instruction to be
given therein. There is no law enfor~
chile which would prevent the estab-
lishment OF private foreign school,
and, in the event of the establishment OF
such school, the existing statutes only
require that the teachers therein need |
be possessed of the qualifications to IN |
struct in educational matters therein |
taught.
OF course, the foregoing advice reia-
tive to the method of enforcing Sections
zoe, 210 and FL of the Revised Laws
applies only as against persons desar-
ing to establish a private school, or
who at the present time are teaching
or conducting such d school without
having complied with the requirements
of law.
/ If children attend a public or private
school recognized by your Department
they cannot be punished df they can
be punished at alb for attending pr.
vate school that is not SO recognized at
hours other than those required py
your Department for their attendance
It. might, however, be argued that the
sections under consideration might pc
| Indirectly enforced as against children
within the school age attending scnoofs
not public or not complying with law
Attendance at public or private scnnoiA
! is by our laws made compulsory, ana
attendance at private schools not re-
cognized by your Department places
person attending such school IN the
same position as though sucn person
refrained from attending school at an,
the penalty therefor being prescribed
by Section 2l3.
i The wisdom of attempting 10 ehIorse
Sections 209, 30 and FL, in n ina'rs-s
method 1ereinbefore snggestei, a'es
not appeal to this Department., ana =
is extremely doubtful II prosecutions
under a technical violation OF this law.
al suggested. would be successful
i I have the honor TO be,
i Yours very respectfully.
s M. r. PROSSER,
Deputy Attorney aenerl
Approved:
e. C. PETERS,
Attorney General.
There was some general discussion
on the subject, ending IN the passage
Of a motion that Superintendent Bah
bitt be a committee of one to confer
with the Attorney General on the mat
ter of legislation to remedy the DIM
Guilty.
VERY FUNNY TROUBLE.
There is not, usually, more solemn
! body in the Territory than the BoaTe
, of notwithstanding the 1hamp -
> of Commerce that tries to look aWfuils
I serious-but Yesterday every menue
q present had to make supreme eHof
9 To keep from roaring with laugnte
over an incident on the island OF han
! al prominent merchant IN one g
. the garden isle'' villages wrote 9
N SUPERINTENDENT Rabbit complaining
:, The principal of the school there ma
: told the children to keep away Irol
!" an evening celebration on account
: the prevalence of measles
u Some of the youngsters disoDeye
u the injunction and the teacher, as
o eording to a penal code OF her owl
: made the offenders take a dose g
y Epson salts, prescribed by DIR. sandoV
II The father of one child treated pros
,e ecuted the teacher in the Dlstrle
'e Court. where she was found guiity :
% assault and battery and hned LOT she
!. offense.
It Besides the letter from the ne1
ID friend "a relative-Df the teaehs4
a there was a letter from the Dlstrls
u MAGISTRATE. Mr. Babbitt answered u I
= letters. He made it clear that, Wn,
/ discipline must be preserved LII u
le school, the liberty of children can n
te be outraged to the extent OF dosln
al them with physic, without the eonseI
70 of their parents, especially Wnen Inc
e are not sick.
OTHER MATTERS.
Letters from Inspectors KING an
= Davis were read It had been foun
A impossible to acquire desired io1 =
:. Joining the Hilo high school. fi
: cases of measles in a Maui school We
1e re ported. ar
ss The temporary appointment OF M ~.
"a Nora Cannon as principal Of Lamar u.
>, school in place of the late Henry -
~ kenson. was approved. She had u
~ nished good credentials, including
~ kindergarten diploma from enieas
Mrs. Dickinson was appointed, for q
" present, as school agent instead o. u
=. dead husband 1t was voted also
:. - send her a letter of coincidence.