r own hands by developing boarding schools. The schools separated kids from their families for long periods of time, and did not encourage the Native American culture, therefore the children felt as though they didn't belong when they were among their families.
             In 1910, the government developed a Compulsory Attendance Law, which required all children to attend school. This was not often followed for many reasons. Primarily, most minority or immigrant families were in the lower class, and needed their children to work or their family would not survive. Also, most immigrant children could not understand English, and therefore could not understand the teacher in school. In 1910, in order to try to solve this problem, New York school superintendent Whilliam H. Maxwell initiated "steamer classes" which were six-month English courses for Immigrants in order to make them more comfortable to move into a traditional US classroom. Also in 1910, the Penny Lunch committee gave school lunch to immigrants for one penny. This encourage
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