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-171-30)

Excerpt: "Last week was the first of harvest vacation and a welcome quiet spell." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-30/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-103)

Excerpt: "During these days of crisis Japanese American Citizens are put into a Concentration Camp as some call it..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-103/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-104)

Excerpt: "A painful memory lingers in the heart of many Niseis -- a memory of those dark somber days of 1941, after the unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-104/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-164)

Excerpt: "War to me is just misery and, an entire change of life for almost everybody."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-164/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-127)

Excerpt: "War, as everyone else says, is 'HELL.'" I wouldn't know what it is, for I have never experienced the horrors of it."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-127/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-68)

Excerpt: "It has been a beautiful sunny weekend. In spite of looking like spring, it's cold." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-68/

doc Student essay: "The Nisei Problem" (ddr-densho-171-152)

Excerpt: "After being put into camp, the Niseis are becomong soft and lazy."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-152/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-70)

Excerpt: "Tonight I am quite well caught up, with my grades all ready and the senior grade point averages under way." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-70/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-79)

Excerpt: "There is really very little news this week. The first part was very hot and yesterday and today have been unseasonably cool." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-79/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-15)

Excerpt: "First -- did you ever receive the bond I sent by registered letter early in December?" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-15/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-161)

Excerpt: "Though war is very distruct, we it is necessary."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-161/

doc Student essay: "Our Farm" (ddr-densho-171-165)

Excerpt: "I sometimes wondered how our farm could be irrigated, and how people could pull all the sagebrush which occupied our now called farm."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-165/

doc Student essay: "We Must Win!" (ddr-densho-171-138)

Excerpt: "It was a bright, sunny morning and I turned toward the hill and graduatlly sought my way to the top."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-138/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-145)

Excerpt: "As the first streak of dawn tinted the horizon, the unwelcomed sound of an alarm was heard."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-145/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-150)

Excerpt: "We have all experienced something that we have never thought of experiencing before."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-150/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-153)

Excerpt:" As I was sitting at home last night thinking for a inspiration, I noticed next door a little boy, about the age of four climbing up and rolling down the sofa valiantly trying to irritate his mother since she could not receive his attention."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-153/

doc Student essay: "What War Means to Me" (ddr-densho-171-123)

Excerpt: "War means to me a futile destruction to mankind."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-123/

doc Student essay: "Foolishness of War" (ddr-densho-171-102)

Excerpt: "I always thought, and I always will think, that war is a foolish, unnecessary thing."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-102/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-44)

Excerpt: "We started our testing program Monday -- a little sooner than I would have liked, but the pressure was on so I 'broke my neck' over it." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-44/

doc Student essay: "Strike --- Strike --- Strike --- reading" (ddr-densho-171-141)

Excerpt: "the latest edition of your newspaper in Headlines or sub topics -- Radio -- news, like these"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-141/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-98)

Excerpt: "War is hatred between nations and nationality, which can be prevented through Christian ideals and humility."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-98/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-158)

Excerpt: "As the silhouette of summer slowly desends upon Minidoka, the fragrant smell of garlic blooms and the sewage plant drifts about with the playful breezes."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-158/

doc Elementary Teachers' Handbook, Minidoka Project Schools (ddr-densho-171-183)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-183/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-87)

First page missing. Excerpt: "We are both delighted to be able to stay and see the work through, but sorry to miss Thanksgiving and Christmas at home."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-87/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-86)

Excerpt: "I'm on the train from Portland to Seattle and will get this off to you before I get behind. I'm having a wonderful time in the Northwest!"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-86/