Topic > The Consequences of Residential Schools - 767

Canada's Aboriginal people are the native peoples of North America within the borders of present-day Canada. In the 1880s there was the start of residential schools which brought Aboriginal children from their families to schools to learn Roman Catholic culture and not their own. In residential schools Aboriginal languages ​​were banned in most school activities, Aboriginal customs were abolished and the Euro-Canadian style was considered superior. Aboriginal residential schools are neglected, there has been mental and physical abuse, Aboriginal people have lost their culture and the consequences of residential schools. For more than a century, more than 100,000 Aboriginal children have attended the schools, run jointly by Ottawa and four Canadian churches. Overall, about 20% of natives attended schools. For generations, the severely underfunded system has subjected defenseless children to emotional, physical and sexual abuse. There were children burned with cigarettes, punched and sexually molested. The residential school called The Gordon, reserve is located 100 km north of Regina. The school was demolished shortly after closing in 1996, but had no luck in the horrible game of a lawsuit. About 230 plaintiffs were awarded between $25,000 and $150,000 each because of the sexual abuse they say they suffered at the school. One who was brought to justice was the school administrator still respectfully called “Mr. Starr” by many of his former students. He worked at Gordon from 1968 to 1984. He had a 16-year free pedophile stint at Gordon luring poor kids to have sex, then buying their silence with money, arcade games, and clothes. It was also alleged that many native workers at the school knew Starr was sexually harassing... middle of paper... Families result in broken homes. , repeating the cycle of abuse for generations. Many natives became alcoholics and drug addicts to cope with the trauma. This led to their children going to foster homes because their parents were unable to care for them in residential schools they didn't think that what they were doing would affect the natives in the future, therefore, they make them careless The consequences of the residential schools caused the natives to have nightmares of their past, losing their identity and becoming violent themselves. The only good thing that came out of this whole episode was the truth. Justice came to the guilty and embarrassment to the Canadian government and churches. In conclusion, the residential schools were careless about the administrative staff they entrusted with the task of caring for Aboriginal children.