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The Stupidity Of Victorian Schools During The Victorian Period

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The Stupidity of Victorian Schools
(A Critique on Victorian Schools) In our day and age the treatment of students, teachers, and anyone involved with the school program is much more different than it was during the Victorian period. “They wiped the slate clean, by spitting on it and rubbing with their coat sleeve or their finger” (Dickinson)! Clearly, the funding for these kids were not at an alltime high at this point. Today, parents from all social classes demand that their children get a proper, well funded education. On top of that, parents will literally sue teachers for harming their children in any sort of way. During the Victorian period, parents didn’t have hardly any jurisdiction over what occurs within school limits. That’s just the smallest fragment of difference between the schools back then and the schools now. In Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Victorian schools are properly illustrated and truly show their disgusting ways in which they’re ran. …show more content…

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