The Workhouse School

Workhouses in the ennth century are normally seen as a punishment for the poor, not something to support them really. Their lives are not horrible there, but they're y regimented. They are supposed to be doing some specific every moment of ther time. The only time that they can actually leave the workhouse is on sunday. It's slightly better because at least they get some education, a tiny bit, and they may be apprenticed afterwards. Solitary confinement, instead of beatings. I'm not sure that's progress. But it doesn't acta end for him that badly, because he does get lifted out of this workhouse school because his mum knows some