The movie Holes is based on an awardwinning novel by Louis Sachar. The movie deals with troubled youths sent to a juvenile detention camp, Camp Greenlake, in central Texas. The camp’s warden (played by Sigourney Weaver) has each of the boys dig a hole 5 feet wide by 5 feet deep (the shovel is the measure!) everyday to “build character.” In reality, the warden has the boys dig the holes in an effort to find buried treasure.

Required:

a. To what extent is the performance measure currently in place (whether the boy has dug a 5 feet wide by 5 feet deep hole) consistent with the state’s objective, which is to reform delinquent youth?

b. To what extent is the performance measure consistent with the warden’s objective of finding buried treasure?

c. What could the state of Texas have done to ensure that the warden did not use the camp to further her own purposes?