Kokua Line
By Hildegaard Verploegen
Thursday, April 18, 1996
Hawaiian flag lone
one flying
at immersion school
Question: I live in Palolo Valley and wonder why the nearby Hawaiian language immersion school flies only the Hawaiian flag? I've noticed other public schools fly both the American and Hawaiian flags. Shouldn't the American flag be flown at schools financed by tax dollars?
Answer: Yes. Both Stan Seki, state deputy school superintendent, and John Sosa, Honolulu district superintendent, said officials at the Hawaiian immersion school have been told to add the American flag to the campus that has been flying only the Hawaiian flag.
Seki said there is no state requirement that public schools fly the American flag but there is a federal statute that specifies that the American flag will be flown at state buildings.
The Hawaiian immersion school, with beginning classes taught in Hawaiian and English added in later years, operates in Palolo Valley in buildings used for Anuenue Elementary School before Anuenue was consolidated with Palolo Elementary.
Other items in today's Kokua Line:
- Bus shelter needs to be cleaned
- Missing piece of the puzzle
- More about taxes
- Traffic alert
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