Peanut Butter Hands with Mary Bateman

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Interview · North Dakota · Mary Bateman · NDNAEU 5

Themes: Education & learning, Boarding schools & assimilation, Food & plants

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Why would the students at a boarding school need to take food from the dining rooms to have in their own rooms? Why would the teachers need to check the students as they leave the dining rooms to see if they had food? In what way did Mary and her friends “problem solve” by putting peanut butter on the palms of their hands and fruit/buns inside the elastic of their bloomers? Why were students not allowed food when they were hungry?

Learn From questions

Have I ever been limited in how much food I was allowed to have? Why was I limited? Have I ever experienced hunger? What was it like? What would it be like to be hungry on a regular basis? Have I ever had to creatively problem solve an issue where someone else was in control of me in some way? What was it like?

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NDNAEU 5 Peanut Butter Hands with Mary Bateman

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Yeah well I think it all ended schools why we had to do something you know anyway I was getting hungry you don’t do the daytime so you know we had those Hickory yeah thanks well thank you advancing their mo you know yeah so a good love gen tso’s we had mother yet I mean peanut butter you know a lot of it we taken and put it under a hair like that you do and now of course then I went to go out I don’t know why they did that but they said we all had to put our hands up printer make sure that we didn’t take nothing yet else okay and then some of them you know when we had that apples or oranges or something you know that was it put it into their in there you know make sure that they’re not going to get out on a big it out loud you yeah I don’t know why they did that they should donate the people you know would probably get huh they should have just set the goal you know what I just thought the government says no it’s

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