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 Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-77)

Excerpt: "This is one of the most leisurely Sundays in a long time. To begin with, I was supposed to have gone to Boise and didn't." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-77/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-168)

Excerpt: "Some people think that war is just to have power over all nations and kill and make destruction as others."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-168/

doc Student essay: "Dust storms" (ddr-densho-171-154)

Excerpt: "What a nice day when all of a sudden, a dust blows right into you."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-154/

doc Student essay: "Is it fair to the fighting men?" (ddr-densho-171-109)

Excerpt: "Is it fair to the soldiers, sailors, and marines, who fight in blizzards, snow, hot deserts, and mud up to their knees; when miners, factory workers..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-109/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-80)

Excerpt: "We have been deluged with clerical help in the office and there have been 25 prisoners of war loading freight since Tuesday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-80/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-57)

Excerpt: "This week has been like winter and today has been raining so we snuggled indoors and have played Chinese checkers all afternoon." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-57/

doc Student essay: "Mom's Best Friend" (ddr-densho-171-160)

Excerpt: "A dog, a single species of animal have come to be man's best friend."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-160/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-73)

Excerpt: "Summer seems officially here today. The past week has been very cold with the most persistent high wind I've seen." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-73/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-126)

Excerpt: "Wish this evacuation business has separated me from my friends."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-126/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-55)

Excerpt: "This has been my annual 'hell week' so there isn't a lot to write about." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-55/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-94)

Excerpt: "Take this quotation to your hearts not merely as words of a man fighting for a most highly and dearly cherished possession, his American citizenship..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-94/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-35)

Excerpt: "It seems the excitement has been going all week." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-35/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-3)

Excerpt: "It has been a full week and last Monday seems years ago. Dr. Hanna came that day." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-3/

doc Student essay: "WAR" (ddr-densho-171-172)

Excerpt: "War would have a different meaning to everyone."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-172/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-21)

Excerpt: "Wednesday night was Episcopal choir." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-21/

doc Student essay: "What I think of War" (ddr-densho-171-110)

Excerpt: "I don't think there is any future in having wars."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-110/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-91)

Excerpt: "Just a hasty note to tell you I've had to move to the YW Residence -- at least temporarily."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-91/

doc Education Program in War Relocation Centers (ddr-densho-171-190)

Publication of the War Relocation Authority.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-190/

doc Student essay: "Freedom" (ddr-densho-171-132)

Excerpt: "Within the waters of the seven seas and on many distant land wanders forever the souls of brave men."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-132/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-5)

Excerpt: "Daddy's letter mailed the 19th finally arrived today. He sounds as though he were really making his mark!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-5/

doc Text of high school speech (ddr-densho-171-129)

Excerpt: "Many people will say that the solutions that we have discussed are idealogical, that they are impractical, and that they are hopeless."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-129/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-22)

Excerpt: "Sunday I slept most of the time I wasn't churching or eating or finishing my grades to give out yesterday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-22/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-78)

Excerpt: "I feel positively luxurious now that we have both hour lunch periods and Saturday afternoons every Saturday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-78/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-181)

Excerpt: "While I scanned through the dictionary my eyes lighted on the word 'war.'"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-181/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-63)

Excerpt: "If I thought I was busy at any time during the last two years, it was a mild form of self-indulgence!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-63/