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Education is the key component for a child’s future.  Educating students of Hawaii, about the land and the culture is very important. With knowledge of the land you can more importance of where you live and the land you step on.  Learning about the culture can give you an idea of how you came to be and how the things around you got there. But if we fail to teach, Hawaii won’t be the same.  Miles of forest could turn into houses, sacred lands would turn into homes for hotels, and endangered species will become extant. Hawaii would become over crowded and that will slowly destroy the land. But luckily, schools are teaching students about the Hawaiian culture and how we can preserve the land. But soon all of that could change.

Students during this generation are faced with the reality of what’s right and what’s wrong. As the fight for Hawaiian land becomes more intense, education is put at the mercy of a single signature. Hawaiian Charter Schools is the education that is being endangered of being getting shut down. Hawaiian Charter School’s, are Hawaiian based schools that go really into depth of what really happened in the years of our ancestors. These schools are what keeping the Hawaiian culture alive by teaching the next generation, thousands and thousands of years of sacred dances and chants. With different laws being passed and taxes being raised, it becomes harder to keep these schools alive.

Hawaiian Charter Schools were created for children that look forward to learn about the Hawaiian Culture. Students learn everyday subjects with the Hawaiian Culture incorporated with it. With this value, students can combine everyday situations with what they’ve learned in school. This provides more critical thinking students, which can help with solving problems in a more fair and safe way. Hawaiian Charter Schools also practice Hawaiian traditions like sailing, hula, and chanting. This helps students become more disciplined and respectful of there surroundings. With every word and every step, there is a meaning behind it. Allowing students to be more knowledgeable about there surroundings.

Simple words like “Pono” and “Laulima” go very far in the Hawaiian Culture. Pono means righteousness and laulima means many hands. The definition doesn’t sound like much but when you go more deep into finding a meaning for the words, you discover more then what you are looking for. When you live with a pono attitude, you start to change the attitude of the people that you encounter. When these people start to live the life of being pono then more and more people become pono as well. Its amazing how simple words can make such a huge impact on peoples lives.

            Overall, it’s important to know where you come from and to keep that culture alive by practicing it and passing it on to the next generation. For example, Hawaiian’s today grow loi kalo (taro patch), learn to navigate by using the stars, and simple things like dancing hula or chanting. If people didn’t practice then we would be clueless about how to survive without the use of technology.