I'm not in favour of controlling language, but it's far past the point that it's evident these institutions were not really schools. I'm sure some learning occu

I'm not in favour of controlling language, but it's far past the point that it's evident these institutions were not really schools. I'm sure some learning occurred, and perhaps some functioned in ways we might recognize as schools. However it seems like a disservice to allow such an elevated label for such a low and destructive institution. Again, I'm not advocating controlling what people are allowed to call them. Just, the word "school" implies this was somehow positive or even positively intended. But these were not that, or enough were not such that it seems we could have a more honest term for what they were and what happened. I'm not an indigenous person in Canada so I can't speak for them, and I'm not trying to. Perhaps most of them are fine with "residential school" and prefer to be more honest about the history of it. It's just so egregiously incorrect to me to continue to call them schools. Perhaps the word 'residential' in association is enough to remind people, as we expose more about them, that they weren't actually a place meant to foster growth and learning and success. I don't know. It just seems like such a bizarre name to continue using.