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-171-9)

Excerpt: "Our weather last night was something to write home about. Yesterday was overcast, warm and calm. At midnight it was cleary and starry." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-9/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-24)

Excerpt: "Monday noon one of my favorite seniors came in with word he had to go home to bed and would probably have a hernia operation Thursday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-24/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-99)

Excerpt: "War is hell! Innocent children, men and women are killed by bombs, billions of dollars are spent for ships, planes, and guns..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-99/

doc Student essay: "What War Means to Me" (ddr-densho-171-120)

Excerpt: "To many people, it means fighting over the land for what we had thought we had won in 1918."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-120/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-34)

Excerpt: "It's late, but I drank quite a bit of coffee at a party here in the dorm tonight and I'm not sleepy." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-34/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-159)

Excerpt: "The sudden return of the many students who were formerly attending N.Y.A. school settle throughout the country struck me rather strange."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-159/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-46)

Excerpt: "We have our ups and downs here. After I got back from the coast we felt quite calm because we'd done all we could and the evacuees and students and faculty had been almost unanimous in Jerry's support." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-46/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-90)

Excerpt: "What a lot has happened since four years ago today! It makes the past week seem rather paltry!"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-90/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-45)

Excerpt: "Briefly, last week was nightmarish from Sunday on." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-45/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-148)

Excerpt: "From the first time I knew what war was like, I hated it."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-148/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-26)

Excerpt: "I'm celebrating my first Saturday afternoon off by a weekend spree and revelling in civilization!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-26/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-64)

Excerpt: "Evelyn Rose of the Washington statistics office -- she spent two weeks here last June and lived in the dorms -- was here again week before last." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-64/

doc Student essay: "Serenade in Blue" (ddr-densho-171-93)

Excerpt: "Perspiring freely the young teacher at the map continued to explain the current topic."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-93/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-135)

Excerpt: "While waiting in front of a soda fountain for a trolley to take me home, I purchanced to overhear two boys arguing."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-135/

doc Student essay: "How War Effects Man in theh fighting front" (ddr-densho-171-125)

Excerpt: "When many men go out to war and across the sea, at least nine out of ten may not come back."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-125/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-83)

Excerpt: "At long last I seem to have enough time -- and paper -- to bring us up to date."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-83/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-20)

Excerpt: "I'll start this now although Mr. Fogarty will be coming any minute to take me down to school." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-20/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-180)

Excerpt: "Yesterday after supper as my friend and I were talking on the way to class a dark peculiar form fell over us."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-180/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-128)

Excerpt: "Our country is now at war but not as wars of yesteryear, many modern and scientific device are in use."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-128/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-75)

Excerpt: "At last breathing spell and breath have coincided so that I can bring you up to date since Minneapolis." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-75/

doc War Relocation Authority Teachers' Handbook on Education for Relocation (ddr-densho-171-184)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-184/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-65)

Excerpt: "Christmas is beginning to take on reality tonight. Most of the gifts, except for a few local ones have ben taken care of, and my cards need only to be addressed according to the list." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-65/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-49)

Excerpt: "Sunday afternoon was the farewell for the Shigayas and Dr. Ishibashi." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-49/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-59)

Excerpt: "It's been a busy week and now harvest vacation has begun." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-59/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-54)

Excerpt: "Two weeks ago tomorrow, which is approximately when I wrote last, I had dinner at Marguerite's." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-54/