So you should probably read up on an issue before commenting on it, hey? Residential schools are a disgusting part of Canada’s history. I’m impressed by how many people are taking the time to explain this to you, but honestly you should be embarrassed that you felt the need to make a comment like this without knowing…

Because residential schools and orphanages are not voluntarily attended and the priests sexually abused the children.

I think everyone else has explained it pretty well. But just to add to the horror.

Native children were forceably removed from their homes and families to attend these residential schools.

The residential school system was a genocidal disaster, designed quite literally to ‘kill the Indian in the child.’ children were beaten, sexuality abused and experimented on at these schools. It’s wasn’t just some strict Catholic boarding school.

The last residential school closed in 1996. It is fresher hell than most realize!

That doesn’t mean we get to trivialize rape, incest and molestation.

Children were forcibly removed with the support of the Federal government . They lived at these schools 10 months of the year and were horribly abused, as well as punished for cultural practices like speaking their language. Children were malnourished, received inadequate health care and in some cases were…

Ummmm. You missed a REALLY important part of that sentence:

The church-funded schools that are referred to are not ones that parents sent their children to by choice. The Indian Residential School System forcibly removed aboriginal children from their homes, sent them to residential schools in order to “assimilate” them into Canadian (Christian) culture). It was essentially…

...century of forcible removal and Christian teaching in church-funded schools.”

It was forced education.

uh, it wasn’t “kids sent to catholic school”, it was “kids abducted from their families and culture, abused physically, mentally and sexually, & forced to abandon their heritage”. slight difference.

The thing is, a lot of these Indigenous children were FORCIBLY removed from their home to go to these Catholic schools, where they were completely cut of from their family and culture, and where many suffered physical, psychological and sexual abuse. Their parents did not want to send them there.

The weren’t sent to the schools. The children were forcibly removed from reserves and basically imprisoned in these horrible schools. They were abused terribly by nuns and priests.

I think the big problem is that native kids were forcibly removed from their families and put into those schools. So there wasn’t that element of choice. The admittedly little knowledge I have is also that the schools were incredibly abusive to those kids, physically and mentally.

In this instance it was less “sending” than “being forced to surrender to” so

If the Pope becomes this grumpy every time someone reminds him of all the people his institution abused, I feel like maybe he chose the wrong career?

Good God, woman, you were the one that got away! Your mom literally ran until she hit the ocean to keep you away from the all-rotting radioactive aura that is Klan Dump! Why in the name of all the saints are you thirsting with such fervor for approval from this morally bankrupt horror show of…

Every lawyer I’ve ever met says to refuse the breathalyzer. Just like invoking your right to not speak, or ask for a lawyer. Doing those things doesn’t make you guilty. Although, that mug shot makes me think, there is def more to this story.