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.
reply
share