Education during the Industrial Revolution

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Education during the Industrial Revolution

• By Peyton Edmond, Sarah Keels, and Savannah Rhyne

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Working Children and Education

• Problem
• For the working children of Industrial
  Revolution, school is out of the question.
  Because they have to work such horrible hours,
  there is no time for learning.

• Solution
• Scrooge is planning to shorten work hours and
  raise money to build schools for the poor
  children if elected. He will try to pull together
  the rich schools to allow the working children to
  attend there until the schools are built. He will
  limit children under the age of 13 to nine hours
  of work every day and at least three hours of
  schooling each day.

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Harsh School RulesProblem

• Although the working children would give anything
  to be at a school, they are not all math and
  literature. They are full of school rules. Harsh
  rules.

• Students must stand up to answer questions and
  wait for permission to speak
• Students must call teachers sir or maam
• Students must stand when an adult enters the room
• Students must use their right hand for writing at
  all times
• Girls will learn needlework and boys will learn
  technical drawing
• Prizes will be given for good attendance
• Students must not put their hands up unless told
  to do so
• Students must not ask questions
• Talking and fidgeting will be punished
• Children who are late, behave badly, or do poor
  work will be punished

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How Can Scrooge HelpSolution

• If elected, Scrooge will try to ban any kind of
  physical harm in the schools, he will develop a
  new discipline system, and he will make the
  school experience a good one for all children.

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School ConditionsProblem

• The classroom is typically a small room with a
  few windows for light, heated by a small coal
  burning stove. The teacher sits at a desk
  resembling a podium and the students sit on
  benches. There is a freestanding blackboard.
  Writing materials consist of sand trays and
  slates.

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How Can Scrooge Help?Solution

• He will make the rooms larger and make the
  teachers as well as the students desks more
  comfortable and more practical by adding a table
  in front of the benches.

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How Does Scrooge Feel?

• He feels pity for the working children of
  London and rage for the adults forcing them to
  work. He feels that all children should have the
  chance to go to school and not have to work until
  they get an education.

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Scrooges New Programs

• He will start night school where the children can
  work shorter days and go to school in the
  afternoon and night.
• He will start Operation Bring Schools Together
  which will bring richer schools together so the
  working children can go to school until the new
  schools can be built.

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VOTE SCROOGE FOR MAYOR.He will create a better
learning environment for the working children of
London.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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