Residential Schools Case Study

The residential school was a government-sponsored religious school founded to assimilate aboriginal children into the Euro-Canadian culture. Originally, Christian schools and Canadian governments have attempted to educate and convert indigenous adolescents into Euro-Canadian society, which has confused life and community and caused long-term problems among the indigenous peoples. With the passage of the British North America Act in 1867 and the implementation of the Indian Act (1876), the government was required to provide Indigenous youth with an education and to integrate them into Canadian society. Large numbers of aboriginal children in Canada were required to attend go to the residential schools. In the article "Impact of residential schooling and of child abuse on substance use problem in Indigenous Peoples" by Amélie Ross states,"According to the First Nations Regional Longitudinal

Schools that offer services to culturally diverse students and families faced special challenges. Aboriginal students with inadequate curriculum, inadequate teachers, shortened classroom hours, or limited parental involvement in education may not only have poor academic performance and low cognitive ability, but also a variety of other psychological difficulties that indirectly affect school attendance and

However, parents were reluctant to intervene in the care and education of their children. Schools were far away from where children came from and were not ready to maintain contact with their parents.A healthy relationship between family and school supports the students to grow their development of academically, behaviorally and socially. Aboriginal students are at increased risk of academic, behavioral, and social problems if their parents can't contact to school or excluded from their