In the internment camps, kids still had to go to school. The U.S. government made sure that each internment camp had a school. People living in the camps that finished college and people living outside were hired to work as teachers in the internment camps.

We interviewed a relative of one of our team mates. This person was an internee in the internment camps of Jerome and Tule Lake. She remembers that one teacher who lived outside of the Jerome internment camp would bring in sugar and butter as prizes if the children did well in school. One of the children wrote something for school and when the teacher read it, she cried. She gave the child a pound of butter or sugar as a reward. These foods were rationed so that is why the child received these foods.

At one of the high schools in internment camp Poston there were no text books for the children, so the teacher would give a lecture and the children had to take notes. For tests they would have to study their notes instead of a text book.

This is part of what happened (in the internment in the schools.)

Interview with Mrs. Hara