Question

What can you infer about the school’s educational and social goals, based on Dove’s experiences?

Answer 1

Answer:

Based on Dove’s experiences, it can be inferred that the school’s educational and social goals were based on male-dominant European American culture, a culture which was not Dove's own, therefore did not share the goals of the school. This is evident because Dove and people like her did not do well in the school's education system, as she had to learn things "the white male way" and was punished for speaking her native language in school.  Dove also did not conform to the social goals taught by the school, as she eventually was married to a man although the marriage did not last. Dove did not align with educational and social goals of the school.

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Answer 2

         Dove's experiences lead to the inference that the main goals of the school were to teach its students the importance of the current dominant European American male culture, punishing her for acting as anything but the perfect image that the school had created of its students. Her goals and the school's goals did not align, causing conflict and her "failure" educationally. She married a man, embracing the social norms of the school she was taught at, but the marriage ended in failure. The attempt to conform was unproductive and the goals of the school, educationally and socially, were not meant to embrace individuality, but to breed a sense of similarity between the different students raised in that environment to fit the perfect picture of what an American should be.