St. Lucy's School For Wolf Girls Analysis

St. Lucy’s School for Wolf Girls makes notable comparisons to the public education system of today. The story takes the lives of the wolf girls, and the portrayal of their lives are strongly correlated with today's school system. With the mention of the emphasis on grades, the competition to be one of the better students, and how the school system alters students to make them better fit for what is socially accepted, the story goes to show the negative aspects of today's school system. Overall, the story shows today's public education in a very negative manner, with little to no mention of the beneficial aspects of the school system. In St. Lucy’s there’s a great emphasis on the wolf girls needing to adapt to the human culture. The girls seem to have the thought that if they are not able to fit into the human culture, this idea is most likely put into the girl's head by the nuns, which shows the need for students to well, and get good grades is based upon the influence of teachers, and parents. This is much like what today's students feel, though getting good grades if for the learning of the students, there's still a sense that if they don't get the best grades their parents will be disappointed, and with the idea that one must get good grades for a good future, there's even …show more content…
Lucy’s school for wolf girls truly shows the nature of today's school system, it clearly portrays the aspects of the education system that changes the lives of students, focuses more on grades rather than the actual learning, and raises competition amongst students. St. Lucy’s shows the negative aspects of today's school system, and by using the wolf girls as a metaphor accurately shows what today's students deal with in school. Overall, the story suggests the negative aspects of today’s school system, and how students are expected to shift to what is thought to be accepted by society. This is started at an early age, and schools morph student into what they believe to be