The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-02-20

in full as follows:
Dear Mrs. Sawyer:
In reply TO your recent request, |
am submitting herein, an enumeration
of the needs of the Puunene School.
In doing so, l fully appreciate the fact
that all the things l mention cannot
be obtained Immediately nor within a
short period of time but l mention
them as the goal towards which to
work for the realization of IN ideal
school plant
New School Building
Our greatest and most important
need is a new school building. 1t
should be of concrete construction
modern in design, and impressive in
its evidence of the thrift of the COM
munity and of the interest of the peo-
pie in the cause of education. 1t
should be two or three stories high
use of lantern slides and moving pic
lures. It should contain twenty rooms.
No more effective means of instruc-
ton has ever been devised than that
Of lantern slides and moving pictures.
Slides and films bearing on nearly all
subjects of interest to the public
schools are easily obtainable. This is
true of agricultural subjects as well
as others and agriculture should be
especially stressed in this community.
By such means the school and the
community can be brought into closer
relations. Parents would be glad to
spend evenings with their children at
the school picture shows. They would
thereby be enlightened and entertain
ed. all Of which would foster a whole
some school spirit. The school would
provide pictures of a desirable charact-
er which would overcome, in large
measure, the undesirable features VI
the commercial movie" which is de
signed purely for a money marking
proposition. Provision for a night
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School AS Community Center
The new building should contain q
library room and appropriate equip
ment This would do much towards
bringing the school and the communi-
ty into closer touch. Parents would
be interested in the library quite as
much as the pupils and both would
gather information and gain a knowl-
edge Of the English language from this
agency. The library would serve also
for the display of educational equip
mcnt such as pictures, charts, samples
Of various products showing their
transition from their raw state to that
OF the finished product. We now have
a vanilla display, a cocoa exhibit, a dis
play of the textile industry, and other
valuable equipment but they are of
little service to us because we have
no place to display them and they
must remain packed away in a closet.
Principals Office
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should be an important feature of the
new building. 1t should be provided
with filing cases for statistical reports,
physical examination records, records
of the various departments OF the
school, records of the academic work
of each pupil, correspondence, etc. We
now have none of these conveniences
which are so essential to the fuller
use of the educational agency.
The buildings that we now have
should not be destroyed but they
should be converted into living quar-
ters for teachers, a gymnasium for
pupils, a bath house with showers, a
laboratory for agricultural work, and
a storerOOm. We have always been
cramped for living quarters for teach
ers, We have no suitable place for
housing a man assistant and, at this
writing, it has been necessary for the
principals family to board our only
male assistant. This condition would
be tolerable only in the case that the
man was a friend of the family and in
any CASE it is a condition to be dis
couraged. We are in urgent need Of
two male assistants besides the prin-
cipal but we.haye no living accommo-
dations for them. Neither have we
sufficient room for u lady assistants.
The crowding Of too many teachers
into a cottage is a serious menace to
the best interests of the school.
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