The Pros And Cons Of Residential Schools

How would you feel if, as a young child, you were taken from your home and driven to an unfamiliar school many kilometers away? What would it be like to live in a strange dorm where you cannot speak your language or follow your religion? Why would these peculiar people drag you here and abuse you? 150,000 Indigenous people have experienced that torture and shame, which has then continued into many other issues for many of those people; such as depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, lower socioeconomic status on average, and suicide. Residential schools powerfully damaged Aboriginal people in a way we cannot ignore.
Aside from the dangerous downfall issues that residential schools caused, they physically, emotional, and sexually abused children and confused them by telling them that everything they knew, did, spoke, and were was wrong. This confusion then put a wedge between those
Just as the students had a chance to maybe, potentially regain their culture, they were sent to residential school again without their parents being able to fight back. If the government can break families apart, abuse children, and destroy cultures without anyone knowing, what else can they do? These issues must be known to the public and told to powerful people.
Currently Aboriginal people make up 23.2% of federal inmates even though they only make up 4% of the general population. 61% of Aboriginal young adults have not completed high school compared with 13% of non-Aboriginal people. These statistics are a problem that is likely to be somewhat caused by residential school, The Indian Act, and other discrimination toward First Nations peoples. There has also been an increasing number of murders of Aboriginal women and teenagers. The world needs to know about the root of these problems and we need to figure out how to solve