Ok, first of all long time no see. Been B-Z.
K - so - I'm born hapa Hawaiian in Waianae, HI...and...so are my children. My husband (pure PI) born in the Philippines (father Navy - retired in HI) grew up in Mililani.
I can remember in my hanabaddah days my grandfather and my parents teaching me about Hawaii's history (learned it in school too). My husband knows just as much Hawaiian history as I do!!! God Bless him that he embraces my culture and it's history as his own.
Now, I've been living on CONUS since 1999. My children's enrichment & edu has been here in Seattle. I love what Seattle Schools has to offer. I love it when my children come up to me telling me about US.: Black History, Native American History, How America came to be, Fact(s) about the states that make up America.
What gets me is the information they don't receive about Hawaii in our public schools - - The 50th State. Here I am today, doing "part-time homeschool" teaching my kids on what they need to know = the truth about Hawaii and it's history. Explain to them...why the drama in Hawaii today.
<<My sister's children went to school in KY and my sister reports the lack of Hawaii history teaching there too.>>
Here my kids' school seem to teach everything but that, Why? Through our observations, all the individual Americans we met seem to know about Hawaii is: Hula, grass huts, leis, getting laid, beaches, volcanoes, palm trees, vacation, etc. They know nothing about the dark mark that rest on the land. Many foreigners come to the island to retreat, retire and make nest and have not even begun to embrace the deep wounds that Hawaii has - let alone seek to learn about them.
American History is taught in our schools isn't it? Hawaii does make Am. 50th state, right?! So why is it that Hawaii's history (how Hawaii illegally became the 50th state (overthrow)) is not apart of the schools curriculum?
Today, I hang the Hawaiian flag (upside down) w/ Ku I Ka Pono on the rear of my van...people ask why is that so (really) then my husband and I have to go about a quick lesson in Hawaiian History of that and then some. All of whom we have spoken to had no idea of Hawaii's past. Umm, lack of education I reckon?!
Please help me in this. I have not found a thread or article pertaining to this matter. This topic infuriates me and I do plan to write to my children's school paper about this. I'd really like to see and hear the truth about Hawaii being taught in public schools.
Pikake
K - so - I'm born hapa Hawaiian in Waianae, HI...and...so are my children. My husband (pure PI) born in the Philippines (father Navy - retired in HI) grew up in Mililani.
I can remember in my hanabaddah days my grandfather and my parents teaching me about Hawaii's history (learned it in school too). My husband knows just as much Hawaiian history as I do!!! God Bless him that he embraces my culture and it's history as his own.
Now, I've been living on CONUS since 1999. My children's enrichment & edu has been here in Seattle. I love what Seattle Schools has to offer. I love it when my children come up to me telling me about US.: Black History, Native American History, How America came to be, Fact(s) about the states that make up America.
What gets me is the information they don't receive about Hawaii in our public schools - - The 50th State. Here I am today, doing "part-time homeschool" teaching my kids on what they need to know = the truth about Hawaii and it's history. Explain to them...why the drama in Hawaii today.
<<My sister's children went to school in KY and my sister reports the lack of Hawaii history teaching there too.>>
Here my kids' school seem to teach everything but that, Why? Through our observations, all the individual Americans we met seem to know about Hawaii is: Hula, grass huts, leis, getting laid, beaches, volcanoes, palm trees, vacation, etc. They know nothing about the dark mark that rest on the land. Many foreigners come to the island to retreat, retire and make nest and have not even begun to embrace the deep wounds that Hawaii has - let alone seek to learn about them.
American History is taught in our schools isn't it? Hawaii does make Am. 50th state, right?! So why is it that Hawaii's history (how Hawaii illegally became the 50th state (overthrow)) is not apart of the schools curriculum?
Today, I hang the Hawaiian flag (upside down) w/ Ku I Ka Pono on the rear of my van...people ask why is that so (really) then my husband and I have to go about a quick lesson in Hawaiian History of that and then some. All of whom we have spoken to had no idea of Hawaii's past. Umm, lack of education I reckon?!
Please help me in this. I have not found a thread or article pertaining to this matter. This topic infuriates me and I do plan to write to my children's school paper about this. I'd really like to see and hear the truth about Hawaii being taught in public schools.
Pikake
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