The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-20
SCHOOL FIGHT


seconded the motion and the fun be
gan.
Mr. Wood attacked the methods Of
the Copelandites as being radical and
revolutionary, declaring that while
/ the supervisors had a right to dis.
cuss, suggest and alter they had no
right to create. and in doing so they
were destroying sacred American
winciple-the principle of having an
unpaid board of education to suggest,
with a paid expert at its head to mi.
tate and create.
The accusation had already been
made by Mr. Baldwin that Mr. Cope
lands plan Disseminated against the
Hawaiian teachers and that further
more it did not treat the Normal
School fairly
Mr. Copeland answered both Mr.
Wood and Mr. Baldwin by indignant
ly denying that his plan discriminate
ed against any race and declaring
that the supervising principals were
there to suggest and to aid in Great
ing, therefore his ninety-page plan IF
study should be read.
Mrs Bertha Ben-Taylor thought
that some of Mr.. Copeland's plan
could be incorporated into Mr.. Pope's
outlined plan of study, and Isaac Cox
declared that the motion as read
would shut out consideration of any
part of the plan and he wanted to
have the words discontinue reading"
struck from the motion And so the
fight was prolonged
Mr. Davis declared that he had
made a motion last Saturday to ad-
journ and continue reading the re-
J port Monday, but he was squelched
by Superintendent Pope, who occupied
! the chair and Prof NJ. NJ Scott Of
I Mckinley High School asked permits
SlOu 10 SPEAK.
He did-for forty minutes. He told
them that they were not sticking to
the main points of the question, that
they were looking at the flea on the
+ dog" and not the dog itself and were
l. wrangling over comparatively small
D matter, for he declared, good teach.
i or adapts her own course of study for
her classes requirements as she stud.
S les them out herself; that Mr.. Cope
= lands course was all right but it was
i too long and that, instead of eternally
@ quibbling over nothing, it was time for
4 the present meeting to unity and select
a simple, concise course of study.
p Mr. Brodie, one of the Copelandite
# leaders, declared that Mr.. Scott was
n wrong about the necessary brevity OF
II a course of study, that on the con
h trary it should be long, meanwhile
the hands of the clock had go
around to fifteen minutes past clever
and nothing accomplished.
81 The question was then put before
( the house and passed by vote o
= nine to seven, and it was moved tt
y take up Mr.. Pope's course section
by section.
Mr. Copeland suggested sweepinl
changes as the course is taken up ant
proceeded to make suggestions bu
was promptly squelched by the chair
Professor Wood then rose and madt
- a scathing denunciation of the plal
. Of making sweeping changes and h,
! held that they were there to sugges
- and had no right to take the initia
~ tive. Mr. Davis jumped to his fee
Il and declared that they We're there t,
n Icake changes and arrange a cours
TO of study.
II 3 Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Pope then too
the floor at the same time and arguer
n back and forth for awhile, Mr.. Davi
* declaring that they We're not to leav
the matter to the educational depart
1t ment but were to do it themselves
t. Mr.. Wood then repeated that the,
g, we're there to suggest changes, net t
81 initiate policies.
p Mr. Copeland then quoted Bernar
r Shaw and said: This course of stud,
d is not holy and we are allowed t,
n touch it,"
Il Finally after a torrent of aloquence
d Mr.. Davis made a motion to appoint (
committee of five to take up Mr.
Pope's course of study section by sec
ton. The amendment was then sug
gested by Miss Ben Taylor to change
the committee number to fifteen. i've
subcommittee of three each; each t,
take one subject and follow it through
- from the first to the eighth grade.
The amendment was then moved by
Mr.. Davis, seconded by MIR. Brodit
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