I was responding to the assertion of the GP that people who are shocked "didn't do the math", not the appropriateness of the term "mass graves". There seems to

I was responding to the assertion of the GP that people who are shocked "didn't do the math", not the appropriateness of the term "mass graves". There seems to be a bit of an elitist bent to several comments here, implying that anyone who is responding to these findings emotionally must either be thoroughly ignorant or incapable of considering historical child mortality rates. Surely it's reasonable for people to be "shocked" to find that children in these schools died at a far higher rate than their non-indigenous peers, and were buried on-site, presumably far from their homes, in graves that up until recently their relatives weren't even sure where they were? What is wrong with allowing people to have that emotion?