| Sumario: | The article discusses how the schools of Hawaii have been serving its varied social classes and cultural groups. In Hawaii, the common schools, established over a century ago for Hawaiian children, developed into the public school system of today. To the schools' task of educating the children of a preliterate folk society was added the task of educating the children of many Oriental immigrants. Because of the linguistic, cultural and class differences separating these children from those of the middle and upper class Caucasians, the latter attended private schools primarily. This practice continued into this century, but since the 1920's the proportion of Caucasian children attending public schools has risen as has that of middle and upper class non-Caucasian children in private schools. Today, it is because the public schools have accomplished their assimilative tasks with the Hawaiians and the non-white immigrants that racial integration is being accepted as natural and is increasing in both the public and private schools. Caucasian parents of moderate means now accept the public schools more fully than ever before and private schools are less and less identifiable by race.
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