The girls of St. Lucy’s and the Indian students were ordered to go to boarding schools because they were not civilized. History Today states, that putting the Indian children in boarding schools away from their over protective parents, was a significant part of civilizing the young children (history today) (1).” As a result, while the Indian children and the girls of St. Lucy’s were at boarding school, they were on the road to a new civilization, and they were not distracted by their parents. Comparably, when the parents of the girls of St. Lucy’s were offered by the nuns to go to boarding school, the parents could not refuse the offer. Since the parents wanted the girls to be “bilingual, wear braces, and use a towel,” they shipped them off