Ground floor of the Girls Dormitory 1987

The dormitory system “… did not encourage the inmates to adopt the values of the white man. In the dormitories, the inmates were poorly fed, denied privacy, forced to sleep in crowded conditions, separated from their families and sent to work throughout the state. Indeed, the oppression and hardship in the dormitory system only served to reinforce a sense of otherness in the inmates. In the school, the crowded conditions and few teachers did little to foster an appreciation of the so called superiority of European culture. In fact the lack of learning enabled inmates to maintain their own cultural traditions and forms.”
— Thom Blake, A Dumping Ground