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Did it fail though? Or do you only see the failures? How many natives went through that? How many ended up with children that are more or less fully assimilate

• jordigh 8y ago
  It deeply, deeply failed. Residential schools were an atrocity. I'd show you articles about them but I'm afraid that no matter what I show you, you'll consider it wrong for some reason, so I ask to try to convince yourself that Canada's residential schools were overall awful.
  • gdhbcc 8y ago
    I'm not making any value judgement, I'm just asking whether or not there is data to state that they didn't accomplish their goals (with some failures along the way)?
    • jordigh 8y ago
      Make a good faith attempt to convince yourself that residential schools were an utter failure (e.g. go read up about them in the book of your choice). I am just afraid that I may attempt to do the work myself and be met with someone who has already made up their mind in bad faith and I'd be wasting my time. If you did make an effort and did indeed find positive effects of residential schools, I'd be more willing to discuss the merits you found.
• Canada 8y ago
  Taking children by force, confining them in education centers, and violently coercing them to assimilate is counterproductive. A third of them went through the residential school system. The land was fully conquered well before the state setup that system. All it's done is produce generation after generation with very good reason to hate and fear the culture that abused them. Not to mention the related damage going through that does. Been to a few reserves before, and what I see mostly isn't good. I consider it a failure because had governments just done nothing and let them be for the last 100 years we'd surely have the same dominant culture now in place regardless. So much harm done for nothing.
  • gdhbcc 8y ago
    Is there data to support that idea though? Or is it just your gut feeling based on popular opinion?