The Fallen Feather - Kinetic Video

The more children enrolled in class, the more money the government would
release to the church.
All food, building maintenance, teacher, and administrative salaries, school
books, children’s health care, all would have to be maintained within this limited
budget. This amount was much less then the average Canadian child and so the
schools had to implement cost cutting business practices to help make ends
meet. SV p 126, 292
Many of the schools ran farms for profit. In the guise of industrial education,
children would labour tending to crops and livestock for half of the school day.
This meat and produce would then be sold in the market, or ended up on the
plates of the teachers and staff. The children would only receive the minimum
amount of food.
The senior boys we had to work outside. But the seniors from about 12 years old
to 16 they use to work all afternoon like two or three hours in the afternoon and
that it. Then they would go early in the morning; then they would go to milking
cows. Early in the morning they would go milking cows by hand and I was one of
them. I’d milk cows. Even some kids worked in the piggery. And I see kids
eating right from the slop, big 45 gallon we use to haul it. You know, a few
nibbles here and there.
Ernie Philip
Was it because they were so hungry
Jannica Hoskins
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