The Importance Of Prejudice In Residential Schools

There is one new understanding covered in class that I struggle with the most. Listening to your personal survival story along with watching the movie We Were Children opened my eyes. Although residential schools were brought up in classes while I was high school we never went into any depth and were only given a general overview of how the schools were ran. My previous understanding of the events that took place in residential schools began and ended with children being forcibly removed from their families to attend the schools. What I found the most surprising is that the last school closed in 1996. Growing up I had the illusion that these schools were only open when my grandma was my age. It makes me really uncomfortable to know that I was alive when the last school closed. Personally, I feel robbed of an opportunity to have had a better understanding at an earlier age of the genocide that occurred here. I believe that a predominating factor on why the tragedies regarding the residential school are not regularly discussed is because the government tries very hard to keep the skeletons in the closet. As brought up in a recent class discussion I do agree that the government feels that because they issued a formal apology that they believe that no further action is required. At an individual level it is a heavy subject to talk about and is easier to just forget. It seems as a society we only want to remember the tragedies that did not happen …show more content…
Hate is something that is taught and reinforced in a person throughout their life. Maybe if the discussions that we are having in our class started at an earlier age there would be more respect for the past and present issues in society. The breakdown of the stereotypes and the truth needs to come out to an individual before they begin to form false impressions. Ultimately, Michele Titler would not have an audience if there was not a widespread acceptance of these