The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-08-02
KINNEY "A, TRACKED
AS ...DICTAT TOR" BY /,
. ~ SCHOOL, ACHER
Enforcing System ~ Public Schools
That rs Treason to american
81 ideals" ,Sqyss Estelle Bdker;;
.'@ Superintendent DeiI;e$ Charge

alleyel Of nperioritysin power and
position as is possible through
knowledge and science. When tlfe
0ermnn educational system, n thus
summed IN in definite statements,
we see at once how sharply that
system contrasts with our Ameri-
can system, which 10 controlled in
every phase Of its organization by
the ideal of unlimited opportunity
for all. 10. y. q" f,f4 49,
~ Hawali s school superintendent was
educated in Europe, in an aristocrhtic
German Institution, and II is Germany
school idtals. mt kmericaJs that ne is
laboring 20 establish in Hawaii
{. Our school system is as different
from that Of 'Germany as our demo
cracy is different from German
antoefacy. The German schools o
perfect organization, but 10 H;ef2-t
organization daveIofed 70 prevent
the grawth of Democracy.
ave F5sg.f ESTEIbE BAKER, .-
Very Par From Facts.
FfAbout as far from facts as II Is
possible for statements to be, ., is what
Superintendent Kinney saws about the
contained in Mrs.. Bakers
statement. In a letter to The Adver.
tiser, the Gperin tendent Of public in.
strurtihn Quotes figures that disproves
the high school charges: ~ u E. n
""E Editor Advertiser thank you for
the opportunity given me to answer
the statements made by Mrs. Estelle
Baker, particularly as, these are about
as far from the facts as il is possible
for statements to be, "lhe writes. - In
stead OF keeping the high school small,
this institution has very greatly In.
creased during the present. aaministra-
ton of the department Of public instruc-
ton .rFsSf n'n ~ 4iptS BGg4
"The enrolment In June, 1914 was
two hundred eighty-two; in June, 1918,
it was, four hundred f0rty4three, Tn
June, 1914, there were thirteen teach.
ers; when school opens in September
Of this year, there will be twenty four.
During this. period, FIVE rooms have been
added, and the department recommend,
ed and secured an appropriation of
$50 10000, which win be avaiiabiS next
year and which will exactly double n
size of the present Mckinley High
School building. In the meantime, ar.
ARE now being made to
lease or borrow Temporary quarters I'M
til the new building is erected.
Most DemOcfatic -. .''''@i', d
D, ,FtT'he, mefhod,f of gaining entrance
INTO the Mckinley High School is as
Democratic as tits possible for 1t to
be, as everyone who passes the eighth,
grade final examinations has, the right,
Ia enter the high school; and no one
anaeighth grade diploma
from the schools Of this county, has
EVER been refused entrance, to m" g.
Kinley High School Social and finan.
cial status Count for nothing: The
,nly entrance qualification is an eight'r
trade diploma, and that is indispensa,
bic. Il y. ~ 9,319a 81. -:
y F'The personal allegation. that re-
reived my education in German SCHOOLS
il utterly untr1e,r and, being uttered
1t this critical time, apparently undnIv,
received my entire edu-
,ation, both primary, secondary amt
sollege in the institutions Of Denmark
lnd the United States. and a more
anti. German country than Denmark,
particularly thirty years ago, cannot
be IMAGINED. so ~.
"Yh,frs very resNectfhllV.
HENRY w? KINNEY.
Superintendent, Public instruction. I"
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