Ms. Yamauchi and her fellow board members are not only ignorant but flame throwers as well. The missionaries created Punahou after they had founded dozens of Hawaiian schools throughout the islands including Royal School which was reserved for the alii (will Ms. Yamauchi call the alii racist and segregationist too?). There were no public schools in those days BTW. And the missionaries didn't create separate schools for their children, they created one school--a school in which they could enroll their children after decades of shipping them off to the mainland at the age of six or seven. And who could blame them for wanting their children to attend schools that taught in English vs. Hawaiian? Should they not be given the same consideration that is given to those who enroll their children in immersion schools today--or would Ms. Yamauchi call these parents also racist and segregationist.