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Title: Suit Filed over "day scholar" residential school status
Category: Political
Posted By: Freakinoldguy
Date: 2012-08-16 07:58:19
Canadian

[Freakinoldguy]

What's next? I deserve a settlement because I know a guy whose cousin's, sisters aunt, went to a residential school during the day and is now completely traumatized because they got to go home at night.

Hell, if they thought going to a residential school during the day was tough and deserves compensation they should have gone to a Catholic school in the 50's.

Sorry to say, but it's just another group of people grasping at straws while trying to get on the gravy train.

[Regina]

When I was in grade school there were a couple Res school kids in my class, maybe even up into high school but I don't recall. Maybe I can get some cash too!!

[Freakinoldguy]

Sorry buddy but you're the wrong colour.

No compensation for you whitey.

[Regina]

Crap!

[PJB]

Let me figure this out for a sec. I went to school every weekday from Grade one to grade twelve and, yes, I got to go home everyday. Therefore it was not a residential school situation. Because I am Caucasian I do not qualify for something that is exactly the same as what these native students did.

I guess my education was a tad bit different from these poor aboriginal kids that had to go to school and still get to go home!

Like I said...I just don't get it!

[ShepherdsDog]

eh...all du udder brudders got summin' udda whiDEE...le's see if we ken doo eh?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Jesus H. Christ on a crutch! Next thing you'll know, the ones that went to summer school(if any) will be suing because they had to go to school in the summer.

[Unsound]

Can I sue because I've had some rather disturbing, almost traumatic, experiences with res school survivors?

[Curtman]

PJB wrote:

Let me figure this out for a sec. I went to school every weekday from Grade one to grade twelve and, yes, I got to go home everyday. Therefore it was not a residential school situation. Because I am Caucasian I do not qualify for something that is exactly the same as what these native students did.

I guess my education was a tad bit different from these poor aboriginal kids that had to go to school and still get to go home!

Like I said...I just don't get it!

Yeah they probably beat you for speaking your native language too?

No? Not really the same then 'eh?

Quote:

"Many members of Canada's aboriginal communities were excluded from the agreement, not because they did not attend residential schools and suffer cultural, linguistic and social damage, but simply because they did not reside at residential schools," says the statement of claim

[raydan]

Curtman wrote:

Yeah they probably beat you for speaking your native language too?

No? Not really the same then 'eh?

I went to school in NS and got beat for speaking my native tongue.

[Curtman]

raydan wrote:

Curtman wrote:

Yeah they probably beat you for speaking your native language too?

No? Not really the same then 'eh?

I went to school in NS and got beat for speaking my native tongue.

You probably deserved it though.

[Gunnair]

Curtman wrote:

raydan wrote:

Curtman wrote:

Yeah they probably beat you for speaking your native language too?

No? Not really the same then 'eh?

I went to school in NS and got beat for speaking my native tongue.

You probably deserved it though.

The French guy did but the native guy didn' t, eh?

[Curtman]

Gunnair wrote:

The French guy did but the native guy didn' t, eh?

I don't know anything about Ray's situation. I guess the flippant attitude in those first few posts bothered me.

Quote:

"It was a government assertion that they didn't suffer the same as residential school survivors," Atleo told reporters at a news conference announcing the lawsuit Wednesday.

"Whether day scholar or a resident, students received similar sorts of abuses and deep trauma."
...
Native children were taken from their homes and put into schools where they were harshly punished and sometimes beaten for speaking their languages. The schools also produced horrifying stories of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of staff.

The last residential school closed in 1996.

The prime minister apologized for the legacy of the residential schools in 2008, acknowledging in Parliament that the schools were designed to "kill the Indian in the child."

This is one of the few things done by the Harper government that I can point to and say I'm proud of them. This whole poor-whiteman syndrome is disgusting though.

[Gunnair]

Curtman wrote:

Gunnair wrote:

The French guy did but the native guy didn' t, eh?

I don't know anything about Ray's situation. I guess the flippant attitude in those first few posts bothered me.

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Two wrongs make a right, I guess.