Just wondering if you think Annie and the rest of the girls went to school anywhere? Were kids required to on the 30s?
In the play, the movie takes place during Christmas, so maybe they were on break, but in THIS movie, it appears to be warm weather, so maybe it was summer break?
Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.
That's a good question. I know I've mentioned the novel versions a lot, but they answer a lot of otherwise unanswered questions. The version based on the play has an entire chapter take place at Annie's school. She is cheated out of first prize in a spelling bee (this is when she learns to spell Mississippi). The book says that Miss Hannigan walks the girls to school and the teachers and students ostracize them because they are "dirty" and have no parents.. So, yes they were supposed to go to school, but the play and movie take place during breaks.
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I noticed in the movie, in one scene there is what appears to be a classroom with desks and a blackboard.
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I've always wondered that too. I've never noticed the chalkboards mentioned. I'll keep an eye out for them next time I watch this.
shareThey were wards of the government and only children who's parents could afford it would send their kids to school. Most likely when Kate and Pepper turned 18, they would be put out on the streets with just their belongings and nothing else.
shareIf you look closely, their "sewing room" appeared to be a classroom. I'd imagine that Hannigan was supposed to be teaching them every day but chose instead to have them work so she could make money.
shareIm pretty sure they had a teacher come to teach them throughout the school year! But it was summer vacation in the movie.
How else would Annie learn to read and write?
Annie....etc picks it up on the streets. Just bc Miss Hannigan does not fulfill her duties does not prevent the girls from attempting to learn what they can about the world around them.
Modern school systems like we know today don't exist in 1930's First they are in the same facility--so they don't go 'home' even like somebody @ a boarding school, college and/or university would.
Second, this is era when schools (even public) could legally practice discrimination--even in places like New York so schools could remove students who were "too slow" (because there was no special ed in the 1930's).
And with the depression, many people lack a steady job--so I doubt people are even checking to see if 'wards of the state' are receiving an adequate education. Miss Hannigan is allowed to provide whatever she feels is appropriate schooling instead.
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