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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
And some posters are missing the fact that the alternative to residential schools was illiteracy and no hope of ever having a job. The first generation of Natives from remote communities who did get an education, who became teachers and lawyers and leaders of their community, went to residential schools. Because there were no other options.
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Cliff, we can all separate the good intentions from the problems that resulted, it’s time you stop justifying one for the other. The problem is not and has never been that aboriginal people were educated, it was the abusive system they were educated in that we need to atone for.
Does illiteracy and “no hope” of ever having a job trump years and years of abuse in terms of terrible things that could happen to you? I’d say no.
It does matter how noble you think the intention was, the result was one of the biggest points of shameful abuse in Canadian
history. Figure it out, man.