Culturally, education is very important to Japanese and this cultural value was inherited by the Japanese Americans. Evidence of this priority is the fact that schools were immediately established at the Heart Mtn. Camp. With weeks of the detainee’s arrival classes began on Sept. 30, 1942. Children in grades 1 through 6 attended 1 of 5 grade schools in barracks located throughout the camp. High school classes began Oct. 6, 1942. Initially 6 barracks in 1 block and 3 recreation halls housed the high school. The majority of the original 34 Caucasian teachers came from Wyoming and Nebraska, and in accordance with Civil Service wage scales were paid $2,000 annually with a few senior teachers receiving $2,600. The 32 Japanese American interned high school teachers were paid $228 annually.