One Major Problem with the Educational System in These Reformatories

question 7

Multiple Choice

One major problem with the educational system in these reformatories was the jobs and skills the inmates were forced to learn. Instead of learning farming and cultivation skills, the youths were:

• A) Taught domestic and servant skills that prevented most youths from getting hired, since many people of that day couldn't afford servants.
• B) Taught outdated production skills that were not used in modern factories, and as such, prevented the youths from getting jobs upon their release.
• C) Taught factory trades which confined the youths to working in large cities, the exact environment the child savers believed were responsible for the initial delinquency.
• D) Taught sophisticated agriculture and biotechnology methods thus alienating many of the local farmers who refused to hire the youths.
• E) all of the above

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