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: "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/

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/