Factors
While determining the amount of money given to the victims of residential schools, I will first take into account which school they attended. Each school across Canada was run in
slightly different way. Some more violent than the other, but all equally as harsh. In addition to this, all the residential schools had one main goal; assimilate Aboriginals to the superior race. Students were forced to learn English, pray to the Christian God, and be human experiments. Sexual, physical, and emotional abuse was faced. How violent and abusive your school was plays a big part in figuring out how much money the victims should receive. Some students might have only been abused a few times over however many years, but others might have been abused triple that amount in the same time period. For example St. Anne’s is said to be one of the harshest Indian residential schools in Canada. Edmund …show more content…
People, please, screw your heads on right! Abuse, not only emotional, but physical, as well as sexual happened within the very walls of the schools. We did not teach the Aboriginal children, we broke them. As further stated in my paragraph, victims of residential schooling will receive money as an apology for what has happened to them. In a documentary film recently shown to my class called, We Were Children, Lyna, a school survivor tells her story about the abuse and traumatizing experiences she faced.
A problem commonly faced is lying. Somehow people in this world believe it is ok to lie. While handing out money to these victims, I took into account many factors, but I’m not sure exactly how to be sure they aren’t just lying to me for personal gain. As referred to above, Lyna was a survivor, but how much of her story do we really know? what is she keeping to herself? We will never truly know what happened to these kids if they aren't willing to share all the abuse they
While determining the amount of money given to the victims of residential schools, I will first take into account which school they attended. Each school across Canada was run in
slightly different way. Some more violent than the other, but all equally as harsh. In addition to this, all the residential schools had one main goal; assimilate Aboriginals to the superior race. Students were forced to learn English, pray to the Christian God, and be human experiments. Sexual, physical, and emotional abuse was faced. How violent and abusive your school was plays a big part in figuring out how much money the victims should receive. Some students might have only been abused a few times over however many years, but others might have been abused triple that amount in the same time period. For example St. Anne’s is said to be one of the harshest Indian residential schools in Canada. Edmund …show more content…
People, please, screw your heads on right! Abuse, not only emotional, but physical, as well as sexual happened within the very walls of the schools. We did not teach the Aboriginal children, we broke them. As further stated in my paragraph, victims of residential schooling will receive money as an apology for what has happened to them. In a documentary film recently shown to my class called, We Were Children, Lyna, a school survivor tells her story about the abuse and traumatizing experiences she faced.
A problem commonly faced is lying. Somehow people in this world believe it is ok to lie. While handing out money to these victims, I took into account many factors, but I’m not sure exactly how to be sure they aren’t just lying to me for personal gain. As referred to above, Lyna was a survivor, but how much of her story do we really know? what is she keeping to herself? We will never truly know what happened to these kids if they aren't willing to share all the abuse they