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Transcript: Reverend Dr. Michael James Oleksa, Ph.D.

Boarding schools removed adolescents from the community and created anxiety among their parents

[Oleksa:]
After about a generation, maybe less—15, 20 years or so—the best and brightest students, 8th graders, were encouraged to sign up for—to register for high school. No one knew what a “high school” was. One that had higher walls? People still really had no concept. It meant a boarding school some thousands of miles away. So toward the end of this first generation of schooling, we not only have confusion and frustration in the community but the young adolescents are being removed completely, shipped off to Oklahoma and Oregon in the case of Alaska.