Don't Let The Sun Step Over You: Chapter 2

Kids shouldn’t be afraid to go to school; however, the government boarding school at Rice is closer to a jail than academics. I mean, there is a fence around the buildings so the children can’t escape. Besides being underfed and malnourished, girls learned how to sew while boys did outside chores including cleaning the outside toilet. It doesn’t sound like they were earning much of an education. If a child disobeyed, they were whipped. Most often, children tried to escape out of that treacherous place and head back home where they truly belonged. Indian police would patrol the land and look for children who weren’t in school and take them there if they found any. It’s not as if these children were orphans, they just weren’t in school. Is this a justified way to educate one’s child?