Boarding School Video Analysis

I am very surprised by this video and what I learned in it. I could not imagine being taken from my home to go to a boarding school to learn a certain way of life. America was founded on the idea of freedom and this is not at all a reflection of that. Those children grew up learning a completely different way of life compared to what they should have learned. At those boarding schools one of the ladies said they had belts without buckles on it for whipping them. She also tells us that she remembers being whipped by a teacher and not being able to cry so she would not show her weakness. If someone tried to do that to the children in schools today, that teacher would end up in a jail cell and they would deserve it. Another lady also recalls a story she had been told by her mother about how two boys were messing around and one of them got kicked down a stairwell. I cannot believe that the people in charge would allow this to go on behind closed doors in a school. Just …show more content…
As stated in the video, it is mandatory for kids to attend school till a certain age. This became a law because government officials wanted to make sure all kids get a good education. By having children attend school by law it is a good way for them to become educated and grow in their environment. The next similarity I noticed was when children would wait in line for food. Even when getting lunch in schools today, students still have to wait in line. It has just become accustomed to society that kids learn this because you have to wait in lines everywhere they will go. Waiting in a line can be completely different for someone in high school versus someone in elementary school. How they describe waiting in a line in the video makes me think back to when I was in elementary school and how I waited to get my food. In looking back on it now, we were trained like those Indian children where when they were in boarding