Education

Schools were quickly organized in the concentration camps, but they suffered from crude facilities and lack of teaching materials. Instruction was given for nursery through high school, and adult education was offered. Trained teachers were in short supply, however, and uncertified Japanese Americans with college degrees often filled in. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) deliberately emphasized Americanization in the education program. Some found it painfully ironic to watch incarcerated youth recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

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doc Student essay: "Since December to Now" (ddr-densho-156-75)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-75/

doc Student essay: "Me" (ddr-densho-156-71)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-71/

doc Student essay: "Freedom" (ddr-densho-156-68)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-68/

img High school students outside a classroom (ddr-densho-156-29)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-29/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-156-80)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-80/

doc Student essay: "All About 'Little Me'" (ddr-densho-156-93)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-93/

doc Student essay: "Me" (ddr-densho-156-67)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-67/

doc Stafford Press, June 1943 (ddr-densho-156-428)

Publication of the Sixth Grade, Stafford School, Minidoka concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-428/

doc Student essay: "Me" (ddr-densho-156-46)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-46/

doc Student essay: "A Review of 1942" (ddr-densho-156-84)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-84/

doc Stafford Press, February 1944 (ddr-densho-156-430)

Publication of the Sixth Grade, Stafford School, Minidoka concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-430/

img Grade school students and teacher (ddr-densho-157-97)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-97/

doc Amache Elementary School welcome letter (ddr-densho-157-195)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-195/

doc Report card (ddr-densho-157-175)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-175/

img High school students (ddr-densho-159-67)

Amache High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-67/

img High school physics class (ddr-densho-159-72)

Left to right: unknown, Mits Omoto (student teacher), George Yonemura, Harry Williams (teacher), Martha Murakami.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-72/

img High school typing class (ddr-densho-159-71)

Amache High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-71/

img Girls Glee Club (ddr-densho-159-183)

The Amache High School choir director was Lowell M. Jackson.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-183/

img Japanese American playing the clarinet (ddr-densho-159-69)

Jane Nakamura Ono on clarinet, Charles Hinman, conductor.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-69/

img High school buildings (ddr-densho-159-82)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-82/

img High school typing class (ddr-densho-159-73)

Amache High School. Teacher: Marguerite Anderson. Student to right of teacher: Toshiko Sakamoto Aiboshi.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-73/

img Two camp teachers (ddr-densho-159-227)

The teacher on the right is Miss Everetts.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-227/

img Two students in woodworking class (ddr-densho-159-76)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-76/

img Schoolchildren (ddr-densho-159-272)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-272/

img High school commencement (ddr-densho-159-78)

Dag Nakatagawa giving a speech at Amache High School's commencement.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-78/