Discrimination in Education

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Imagine a new student at a school. Since they are not like everyone else, they get treated differently. There is a chain of schools in Hawaii called Kamehameha. It is a public school that mostly accepts Naïve Hawaiians with Hawaiian ancestry. It’s a very hard school to get in to; the admissions percentages are 6.4% to 14.7% (Kamehameha Schools) This school teaches the kids about Hawaiian culture and traditions. The whole point of the school is to keep the Hawaiian culture alive by teaching young generations. The mission of Kamehameha Schools is to “improve the capability and well-being of Hawaiians through education.” (Kamehameha Schools) They serve over 6,900 students of Hawaiian ancestry at K-12 campuses on O‘ahu, Maui and Hawai‘i island, and at 31 preschool sites statewide. This school claims to be, “Hawaii’s largest private contributor to Hawaii’s Public School system.”(Kamehameha Schools)

The founder of these schools was a princess named Bernice Pauahi Bishop. She started to see the native Hawaiian population going down; in just a few years the population went down almost 40%. Pauahi felt “felt responsible and accountable” ( Kamehameha). In 1883 she inherited money from her cousin. She got five other people to invest in her school by the names of, Charles Reed Bishop, Samuel Mills Damon, William Owen Smith, Charles Montague Cooke and Charles McEwen Hyde. Short after, an all boys school commenced, in 1884 an all girls school initiated in Honolulu. By 1865. It became coeducational and part of the real school system. Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop’s vision was to strengthen the native population. Her husband, Charles Reed Bishop said, “Her heart was heavy when she saw the rapid diminution of the Hawaiian people goi...

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... what he's going to do once his son is ready for good education. It helps my stance.

Hawaii. Dir. Greg Grainger. Gold Hil Entertainment, 2003. Film
This says how some of the natives don’t like to be combined with other non natives. It has opinions of the natives and how they think the non natives will destroy their culture. This helps the rebuttal by giving two sides of the issue.

Williams, Julie S. "Kamehameha Schools." Kamehameha Schools. Kamehameha Schools, 1 Oct. 2008. Web. 27 Feb. 2014.
This has information about princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. She started the schools in Hawaii that help with my rebuttal.

"Welcome ToCornell Law School." Cornell Law School...Lawyers in the Best Sense. LII, n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2014.
This states the law of the Civil Rights law. This is good to have because this proves a lot of the Hawaiian schools wrong.

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