VICTORIAN+SCHOOLS

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=__**Victorian Schools**__=

==Many children to day don’t go to school at all. When the rich children are at school and learning something, the poor children have to work at the factories to manage the workday. And that’s one of the reasons why poor children nearly can’t neither read nor write.==

===At the schools to day, most of the pupils are children from the middle class. The richest children go to private schools, or they just have their own teacher, a governess, to teach them at home. The poorest children have to work at the factories, to earn some money to survive. Their earnings are an important part for the family income. If they don’t go to work, their families would lose this money. We have a question; haven’t all children right to go to school? Apparently not.===

===In these days boys and girls have to go through different doors, and they have to sit in separate rows. They are learning different subjects and are not always treated in the same way. The girls are learning to sew and other skills that would help them later. They mean this are the most useful subjects for the girls to day. The boys, on the other hand, are learning technology, science, and they also get some extra math. Girls are not expected to be as well educated as boys.===

===There are actually some kinds of school for the poor children too. The youngest children can go to a "Dame" school, which is run by a local woman, and she actually teach them in a room of her own house. The older ones go to a day school. There are also some schools called the "ragged" schools, which are for orphans and very poor children.===

===The class rules are very strict, and if some of the pupils do something wrong, like answer the teacher back, being late for class or leaving the playroom without permission and so on, they would get hit with a cane or a ruler. Boys are caned across their bottoms, while the girls are caned across their hands or legs. But is that right? Can the teachers just do things like that, if you just are 2 minutes late for class? The answer is yes.===

===We have talked to some boys, and asked them about how their school day is. One of the boys, Richard Cornell, has gone to school for 2 years, and one day he wants to be a dentist. We asked Richard what he thought about his school day.=== ===- I think the school day is all right. On the walls in our classroom, there are maps and also some pictures of Queen Victoria. Most of the day, we just write on our slates and copying from the blackboard. It’s a bit boring and very monotonous! But it's nothing we can do with that.===