Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-23
SCHOOL CHILDREN
Continued from Pare ~

=
men, how much could you save on
fifty dollars a month?
And there are PIG of us who don't
get even that much. Why, the men
who empty the garbage boxes get
more for their work than we do for
ours!
and we have to deal with chill
dren, children of many kinds of FAM
lilies. Some of them are very hard
to control, for their parents have no
control over them at home. What
would you men do If one of your
children was openly to defy you, TO
tell you 4 won't, when you told him
to do n thing? You wouldn't stand
It for a minute. But that Is one Of
the things we have to contend with
every day. And we get fifty dollars
a month!
Fifty dollars month -- and out
of that we have to pay all our living
expenses. We have to buy decent
clothes or we get marked down for
not being neatly dressed. We have
to pay our board, and you know that
$50 a month is moderate estimate
for board in this Territory. You say
we have 500 left and 500 is lot OF
money. You wonder what we do
with all of II. Yes: It Is a lot OF
money, when out of 1t we have to
pay our dentist and all our other ex
|
| that!'--and the speaker swept her
5 hand out in gesture indicating
= about how long the munifcent sun
t lasts In this community.
! Some of the teachers have to sup
port their families out of that fifty
!, dollars n month. 1t is not for them.
, selves that they are accommodating
I riches on fifty dollars month.
= I'VE need trip to the Coast occa.
sionaIly, to get new ideas for ou
work. How long do you think 1t will
e take us to save up enough out oi
fifty dollars a month to pay for Il
4 trip, even to California? |'
e And we can't make out of fifty
4 dollars month decent provision fol-
e the time when we must stop teach
= ing-for we must stop some time. We
s cant teach all our lives.
e This Territory wouldn't be fl
: place to live in II It were not fol
I the schools-and yet you talk of Civ
= ing us less than fifty dollars Q
e month"
!. Miss Judd sat down in the midst
: of roar of applause, while the leg
n islators present looked as II they haC
er seen before They We're confront
= ed with fact and its consequences
}, not with an academic theory.
e What Is Needed.
h Many speakers preceded Miss Jud,
and none of them was in favor o
t cutting salaries or raising the schoo
n age limit. Superintendent Rabbit
e was first called upon by Chairman
), Long, and with the aid OF charts h,
d showed the audience what II Is tina
o the Board of Education asks for, go
IS ing into details as to what is needed
II and why. The department. he said
i: first asked for $4,000, but this es
/, innate was later cut by the executiy
= to s775,O00. With this $4,000 al
d the present teachers could be KEEP
l. on the schedule, including the o.
uncertiicated teachers.
Prof. SCOTS View.
"a | Drnfapcnr Scott Of tho IJiph GphntI
lie followed Supt. Rabbit. He state
0, that he had been appointed by tn
he Teachers Association to present theI
4 views, on plain educational basis
T. lie stated two postulcs: first, tn
young must all be educated; secont
4 education must be in the Englis
A. language. Every child, he said, ha
ID the right to be taught to read, I
rs know something Of the literature G
his country, to cipher and to kno'
Z. enough geography TO know wha
~ manner of a world this is that h
G. lives in.
oil The country must have good teac
ne ers - leaders who can talk and az
d. wise with their pupils and lead thel
along to be Intelligent and goo
a men aud women. The teacher
in worthy Of her hire. and she doesn
es expect TO get n fortune out of 1t.
ly As to the school age, ProfessC
he Scott did not believe the lower lin
should be raised, for from six
n eight is the time in u child's iii
Of when he is most susceptible to II