Residential Schools In Canada

Residential schools refer to a governmental system that is operated to care and educate aboriginal children in Canada. The majority of students in residential schools are aged under 16 years old, so they are easier to manipulate with the commands of teachers than adults. Although the schools’ primary objective of civilizing First Nations children seems to be implemented in a good manner, they are actually depriving those young people of their human rights. The government of Canada holds the perspective that young people are more easily acceptable and susceptible to external factors; therefore, the Canadian government forcefully attempts to assimilate those young people into dominant Canadian society. Despite the fact that the prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, gave a speech and made a sincere apology to the general public, it still cannot change the reality that thousands of people had died from attending residential schools. Residential schools devastatingly violate human rights through abusing students for any inappropriate doings, separating students from their families and relatives, and keeping students from speaking their indigenous languages and from acquiring …show more content…
Students attending residential school lived an inferior quality of life and their health was threatened by the substandard environments of schools. As a result, people pass away from diseases and abuses at a young age, and the death rate always remains significant at residential schools. Even though students were not beaten to death, they must have been traumatized. The harm caused by those abuses could potentially lead students to mental disorders because they live in the fear of being mistreated again and seeing their peers