Word: bushong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the faculty of 165, he cut away deadwood, hired bright mainlanders, introduced a merit system of raises that could bring a teacher with a doctorate $11,078 a year. Over a three-year period Bushong insists that teachers spend one summer in a campus workshop and one summer taking college credit courses before getting the third summer...
Problems of Wealth. The school picks students on the basis of home visits and academic achievement, rejecting about half. The torrent of money that pours into Kam pays all board and room and most teaching costs, although students still must pay up to $137 in tuition. Wealth clearly relieves Bushong of the most serious problem headmasters face, but the terms of his riches make other headaches. The princess' will, for example, specifies that Kam teachers must be Protestants (although the student body is 30% Roman Catholic, 15% Mormon, and the rest Protestant or unaffiliated), but a new state fair...
Race also creates an issue. Bushong, the trustees and Hawaiians in general are willing to go along with the Hawaiian-blood clause for student admission, partly because such students seem worthy beneficiaries of the princess' wealth and partly because intermarriage has given a big portion of Hawaiians some native blood (almost four-fifths of last year's Kam graduates had non-Hawaiian surnames). Yet such discrimination runs against civil rights principles and may have to be changed...
...also forces Bushong to send his two daughters to another school. He is satisfied with the education they are getting-but it is a measure of his confidence in Kam's fast advance and "virtually unlimited potential" that he says, "I'd rather have them here...