BOARD OF EDUCATION WILL HAVE JAPANESE SCHOOLS

At a special meeting of the Board of Education held yesterday morning, that body put itself on record as being determined to establish separate schools for Chinese and Japanese. This resolution is the immediate result of the crowding of Japanese pupils into the schools and the campaign being conducted by the "Chronicle" against the immigration of Japanese laborers into this country.

The Board of Education met yesterday to consider the question arising because of the crowding of the Japanese, many of them adults, into the public schools of this city and county. The following resolution was adopted without discussion or dissent:

Whereas, The attention of the Board of Education of this city and county, in its visits of inspection to the different schools, has been repeatedly directed toward the attendance of children of Japanese descent as pupils, and to the evil consequences liable to result therefrom through the indiscriminate association of our children with those of the Mongolian race; and, whereas, section 1662 of the State Political Cole of California, the constitutionality of this section having been upheld and sustained by our Supreme Court, vests city Boards of Education with the power to establish separate schools for the accommodation of children of Indian, Mongolian or Chinese descent, and further provides that when such separate schools are established, that Indian, Chinese or Mongolian children must not be admitted to other schools of our public-school system; and, whereas, it is the sense of the members of the Board of Education that the admission of children of Japanese or Mongolian descent as pupils of our common schools is contrary to the spirit and the letter of the law and that the co-mingling of such pupils with Caucasian children is baneful and demoralizing in the extreme, the ideas entertained and practiced by people of Mongolian or Japanese affiliations being widely divergent from those of Americans; and, whereas, the school situation has become serious through the great numbers of Japanese in our midst, many instances of our children being excluded from schools by Japanese pupils, through the right of priority of admission incidental to lack of adequate accommodation and room, through no fault or neglect of this department, attributable to the insufficiency of funds; there be it

Resolved, That the Board of Education is determined in its efforts to effect the establishment of separate schools for Chinese and Japanese pupils, not only for the purpose of relieving the congestion at present prevailing in our schools, but also for the higher end that our children should not be placed in any position where their youthful impressions may be affected by association with pupils of the Mongolian race.