History of Modern Hawaii as Taught in Hawaii Schools

1. Introduction

All students in the Hawaii public schools are required to pass a course on the modern history of Hawaii before they can graduate. As a result of the history-twisting and victimhood mentality spawned by this course, thousands of teenagers and young adults now feel rising levels of anti-Americanism and anti-Caucasian racial resentment. How did this sad state of affairs come about?

Two textbooks are available for the course, and they will be reviewed below. Actually, the Department of Education and its area offices try to maintain the fiction that the social studies teachers in each high school are free to chose any book they wish, whether or not it is one of these two. However, the DOE has established a set of "standards" for every course, including this one. There are only two books for which the highly paid bureaucracy at the DOE has created curriculum guides identifying which chapters, sections, or pages in the book are devoted to each of the standards. Thus, if the overworked teachers in a public school were to choose a different book, the burden would fall upon them to create such a guide. Apparently neither the DOE nor its area offices keep track of which textbooks are used by which schools. To find out, it's necessary to contact the social studies department chair, or the individual teachers, in each school.

Although there is a set of "standards", there appears to be no specific curriculum. Each teacher uses the chosen textbook in whatever way he/she wishes. Homework assignments and projects might be suggested in the textbook, but apparently examinations are created by each teacher from scratch. There is no midterm or final exam which all students take, which would allow teachers to be compared against each other according to how well their students do in meeting the so-called "standards." The "standards" themselves are extremely vague; never specifying any set of facts which students must know, but rather identifying general topics which students are supposed to be able to "discuss" or "compare" or "explain." The apparent freedom given to each teacher to design his/her own curriculum and to decide how to measure student achievement is actually a huge burden requiring each teacher to reinvent the wheel. The result is that teachers are likely to recycle class lessons or projects which they did when they themselves were students in a Hawaiian Studies course, or use lesson plans offered to them by Kamehameha Schools or other Hawaiian sovereignty groups.

What's above is section 1, "Introduction", in a webpage providing a more detailed analysis. The webpage identifies the so-called "standards" for the Modern History of Hawaii course, and the two books whose contents have been allocated among the standards by the DOE. Some specific examples are provided to show how the books skew Hawaiian history to brainwash students with pro-sovereignty, anti-American, or anti-Caucasian attitudes. The webpage then briefly considers a wider scope of related topics such as the role of education in society, the role of the University of Hawaii in shaping how Hawaiian history is taught, the public charter schools and especially the "Hawaiian-focus" ones, and the growing influence of Kamehameha Schools in shaping the public school curriculum.

Here are the titles of the remaining sections of the webpage, located at
http://tinyurl.com/4ys86vg

2. The official "standards" for the required course on Hawaii's modern history

3. The two textbooks referenced by the Hawaii Department of Education standards

4. Examples of how the Hawaii history textbooks brainwash the students with anti-American and anti-Caucasian attitudes

5. Education transmits the culture or can be used to change it

6. Ken Conklin's personal background as related to Hawaiian issues

7. Hawaii history as taught at the University of Hawaii

8. Hawaii history as taught in the non-traditional Hawaii public (charter) schools

9. The impact of Kamehameha schools on charter schools and regular public schools

10. Ten sample test questions to show the likely ignorance and bias of students who have completed the history course (and probably of their teachers too!)

The detailed webpage is at
http://tinyurl.com/4ys86vg