Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-23
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old, but after that they should be
Obliged to go. AS to the upper linz
It. Prof Scott was not sure but thai
It might in many cases be wise to
lower IT, let a boy leave school az
Il instead of having to go until hu
is 16.
As to money. Professor Scott said
that is up to the Legislators; II they
say there Is no prosperity, no diyi-
dends. he would say, good. But ut
would be hard to make him believe
that the country is not prosperous
enough to pay its teachers decent
salaries.
Industrious Children.
| w. A. Kinney agreed with Profess
sOr Scott that II might be well to
allow children to leave school at an
earlier age than 1G, but he did not
think It wise to raise the lower
school age limit. You can't eX-
pect," he said. to send a child to
school from TO Is and then expect
him to come out with habits of in
dustry. a halt must be called some
where. We must not raise the school
age limit. but | don't believe in con-
tinuing compulsion to 1 > years. Give
the parent more leeway over the
child after the age of ten years.
THE child cant work and won't
work unless he has been trained to
work.
THE policy of pairing down the
salaries of the teachers is not worth
discussing. 1t would be bad econ
omy that the country should blush
for, and no saving, anyway"
Mr.. Seudder.
| Doremus Scudder said that the
Legislature should never think of
cutting the salaries of the most use
full class in the community. The
school teachers are the poorest-paid
class in the community and give the
most value. He said that he would
be willing himself to pay more taxes
out of his $4000-a-year salary rath-
or than have the pay of the teachers
reduced. He had no sympathy with
the talk that one of the richest coun-
, tries in the world is too poor to pay
I salaries to its most useful class.
, Teach Industry.
. w Il. Harrington stated that to
= him the whole proposition of cutting
r salaries and raising the school-age
, limit was the most extraordinary he
\ had ever heard of, particularly as
Hawaii has always taken II pride In
. her schools and has pointed the fin
= ger of scorn at Massachusetts be-
= cause that State has had Il higher per.
: centage of illiterates than this Terri.
tory.
e At the meeting last Monday even
r Ing a man said that the schools are
only nurseries anyway, and that
{ many of the children are sent to
1 school merely to get them out of
their parents way. Where that is
Y the case the father and mother are
+ generally adding their mite to the
= general prosperity of the country. If
e their children have not right to Il
good place to stay | don't know what
they are entitled to.
+ III the second generation of the
= Portuguese are not as good as their
a parents, it Is the fault of the
schools. | would correct this by in
I Producing a resolution in this Legis-
: lature to put manual training into
4 the schools. There is not enough OPP
= portunity for everybody in the white
t. shirt professions. | don't see why
J, we should not teach the children
that It is quite as proper for them to
learn to work In the field, to plant
d n field properly, MS II Is to work in
Il an Office. ] think we could profit
u ably change the curriculum of our
{ schools so as to teach the children
n manual training in agriculture as We
e now have II In mechanics.
t only the inefficient teachers arc
= overpaid. Hundreds are undergrad
d This is the last place we should econ.
|, omize. II you will curb the Other
b departments of the Government as
e they should be curbed, you can give
II the public schools 100000 more
It than they now ask for"
3 Lillkalani spoke next, his address
being in Hawaiian, which was MOI
translated. He was followed by Mr.
u Rath of the Palama Mission, who
d told how sorry he would be to SEE
e any raise in the school age. II woulC
IT. merely throw the children on tho
s. streets at their most susceptible age
Ie to learn vice and crime. As IL is, h,
4, said, the figures of the truant Office
h show that of the children who play
rs hockey ~ per cent are Hawaiian
% II per cent. Portuguese, ana only /
Of or 9 per cent. AsiPtlc.
W w. h. Castle, when called upol
at said: Il am glad to have chanc,
le to say in this regard that ! lool
upon the 20-per-cent. cut that wa
IN made few years ago in the salarie
l.. of the teachers rs the blacklist mari
M in the escutchcon Of this Territory. /
nj WAS absolutely indpfpnsiblp inpXcu