Friday, 25 March 2011

Sample Daily Routine for Indian boarding school

I feel so sorry for those kids who studied in the Boarding schools. They were actually like a robots. According to my research, I found out that they had very severe disciplines. If someone broke them, teachers in the school would punished the kids heavily.
Here is a typical timetable of one day in a Indian boarding school.

Cushman Indian School, Tacoma, Wash.
February 1, 1912
Monday
5:45 A.M.Reveille.
5:55 to 6:10Setting Up Exercise & Drill.
6:12Air Beds.
6:12 to 6:45Recreation.
6:45First Call for Breakfast.
6:55Assembly. Roll Call.
7:00Breakfast.
7:30 to 7:35Care of teeth.
7:35 to 7:40Make beds.
7:40 to 7:55Police Quarters.
7:55Industrial Call.
8:00Industrial work begins. School detail at liberty. The use of this period is at pupils' discretion. The more studious at books; those inclined to athletics make use of this time for practice. Some pupils practice music lessons, etc.
8:50First School Call. Roll Call and Inspection.
9:00School.
11:30Recall. Pupils at liberty.
11:55Assembly and Roll Call.
12:00Dinner.
12:30Recreation.
12:50School and Industrial Call. Inspection.
1:00 P.M.Industrial work and School.
3:30School dismissed. School detail at liberty. Time spent in same general manner as morning detail utilizes period from 8:00 to 8:50.
4:30Industrial recall. Drill and Gymnasium classes.
5:15First Call.
5:25Assembly. Roll Call.
5:30Supper.
6:00Care of teeth.
6:10Recreation.
7:15First Call.
7:25Roll Call. Inspection.
7:30Lecture. This period varies in length. Men prominent in education or civic affairs address the pupils.
8:15Call to Quarters. Older pupils prepare lessons; intermediate children play.
8:45Tattoo. Pupils retire.
8:55Check.
9:00Taps.

1 comment:

  1. Wow where did you find this information at? This is really good. Thank you for sharing this.

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