HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 323 Draft 01 1994-1996 OFFICE INFORMATION ONLY
Meeting: Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations Committee - 02/01/2005
Action: Close file via Comm. 45 dated 12/17/2004
(Note: At the Human Services and Public Works Committee meeting of
05/16/1996, Res. 323 -96 (Comm. 1171) was deferred to get additional
information from the Senate and Department of Education. This item was
never placed on an agenda thereafter.
Re: Res. 323 -96, Comm 1171 (1996)
I COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the public schools have an important role in inculcating basic values and serve
as places where the fundamental values necessary to the maintenance of a democratic political
system and the shared values of a civilized social order (ethics) are conveyed; and
1 WHEREAS, the importance of this values and ethics inculcating function has increased
dramatically in recent years because of the rapidly diminishing role of the home and church in
1 shaping the character and value judgements of young people, and
WHEREAS, there is concern that the public schools are not adequately fulfilling this
enhanced responsibility, that the schools neither reflect nor support the values and ethics held by ffi
taxpayers, and that the schools are not exerting a sufficiently positive moral influence on young
people, and
WHEREAS, the failure of the public schools to carry out fully this values and ethics
mission will result inevitably in a fundamentally insoluble values and ethics crisis at the very
core of contemporary society when today's young people become adults, and cast society
irremediably adrift, and
1 WHEREAS, it is the responsibility of the Board of Education to begin in a dialogue on
values and ethics issues with schools communities in order to define and implement the values
and ethics mculcating role of the public schools in contemporary society
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF
HAWAII that it requests the Board of Education to establish a program to define and implement I
the values and ethics inculcating role of the public schools in contemporary society I
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the County of Hawaii transmit copies of
this Resolution to Mitsugi Nakashima, the Chairperson of the Board of Education, Herman
Aizawa, the Superintendent of the Board of Education, Robert Fox, Hawaii Board Member, and
Patricia Bergin, Hawaii District Superintendent
Dated Hilo, Hawaii, this day of , 1996
INTRODUCED BY
COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII
ROLL CALL VOTE
COUNTY COUNCIL
County of Hawaii AYES NOES ABS EX I
Hilo, Hawaii
Arakaki
Bonk- Abramson
I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by the Childs
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vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of Luna
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the County of Hawau on Do go
Osono
Rath
ATTEST: Ray
Smith
Reference C- 117 /HS&PWC 1
COUNTY CLERK CHAIRMAN & PRESIDING OFFICER RESOLUTION NO. 323 96
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