In Canada our government has, in the past, made residential schools for first nations people. The schools themselves started around 1900’s, and surprisingly didn’t get abolished until 1996. America’s dark history is with slavery and racism to the blacks. These schools are the blacksheep  of Canada’s history.   The effects on some of children who were forced to attend doesn’t leave people with a happy feeling. The schools themselves were never a good idea. Or our idea of forcing them into “white” culture.

How we treated them is terrible, don’t get me wrong. The things that are said to have happen just make you want to shudder. Students began to disclose information that some of them had been beaten, starved and sexually assaulted. That just makes me feel sick.  The occasional student enjoyed their time there. Unfortunately most did not. the effects of these school completely depend on the student some students don't know how to function in our society. Some went through the school with out the problems of being assaulted.

The school buildings look sad and forbidding and I would not like to be one of the people who were stuck in the building. they were very strict in what they had to do. having no choice in any of the matters. the some of the teachers were determined to make the children's lives miserable and force them to live through things that just make me shudder. The schools were never a good idea. The Federal government thought differently. 

Some of the children were able to move past the bad experiences that they had faced in school. others couldn't and still can't function in our modern society. Funny what we sent them away from friends and family to learn is the one thing that they are now incapable to do. they are now the people who are homeless on the park bench trying drugs so that they can move over the horrific experience that they had and be able to make a new life... maybe... someday. 

So what do we think? the schools are gone and the people they were trying to "fix" are broken what were we trying to accomplish? People, All people in Canada now have the opportunity to believe what they want and to be able to make there own decisions on their education. the schools are gone forever now. The question is what are we going to do to help those who "broke" in the schools? We can try.