What can you infer about the school’s educational and social goals, based on Dove’s experiences?

         Dove's experiences lead to the inference that the main goals of the school were to teach its students the importance of the current dominant European American male culture, punishing her for acting as anything but the perfect image that the school had created of its students. Her goals and the school's goals did not align, causing conflict and her "failure" educationally. She married a man, embracing the social norms of the school she was taught at, but the marriage ended in failure. The attempt to conform was unproductive and the goals of the school, educationally and socially, were not meant to embrace individuality, but to breed a sense of similarity between the different students raised in that environment to fit the perfect picture of what an American should be.