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    deaf child‚ as a hearing parent. One major decision on a parent’s plate for their deaf child is the choice of a residential or oral school to enroll their child in. Even though the students will be less exposed to deaf culture‚ parents of deaf children should send their kids to an oral school because they graduate with a higher reading level than kids who graduate from a residential school and learning how to assimilate with the majority of the population could help further their experience in life

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    civilized (i.e. European) lifestyle. Residential schools were established for two reasons: separation of the children from the family and the belief that aboriginal culture was not worth preserving. Most people concluded that aboriginal culture was useless and dying and all human beings would eventually develop and change to be like the ’advanced’ European civilization. Early residential schools were similar to religious missions. Later‚ the mission-run schools were administered jointly by Canadian

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    Residential schools should not be continued because of common practices‚ family‚ and knowledge. To begin‚ residential schools should not be continued because of common practices. Aboriginal children are already used to their common practices from home. They have been hunting and preparing food‚ and interacting positively with nature for at least four years. Adjusting to the new lifestyle they are put in is odd and difficult for them because in residential schools‚ the children do not hunt and prepare

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    Republic of the Philippines Office of the President COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) ETEEAP APPLICATION FORM INSTRUCTION: Please type or print clearly‚ provide complete and detailed information required. Do not leave blank unanswered; write “Not Applicable” as the case may be. All declarations that you make herewith are under oath. Discovery of any false claim in this application form will disqualify you

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    26 May 2013 Inside of the Residential School System Every person has a different way of living his or her life. Just because it may be different than another‚ it does not mean that it is wrong. For whatever reason‚ some people are under the impression that others who do not share the same religious or cultural views as themselves are mistaken and need help to figure out the right way to live. This is what happened to the Aboriginal People of North America; the European settlers thought the Natives

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    A Residential School Legacy From the late 1800s to the 1980s‚ more than 100‚000 First Nations children in Canada attended residential schools (Llewellyn‚ 2008‚ p. 258).2 To attend these schools‚ children were taken away from their families and communities. At the schools‚ the children suffered from emotional‚ physical‚ sexual and spiritual abuse (Steckley & Cummins‚ 2001‚ p. 191). The worst abuses were often used as punishment for speaking their indigenous languages (Petten‚ 2007‚ p. 22). The

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    “Thousands of Canada’s aboriginal children died in residential schools that failed to keep them safe from fires‚ protected from abusers‚ and healthy from deadly disease” (Kennedy). There were about 130 schools in every province and territory except Newfoundland‚ Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick with about 150‚000 attendees‚ segregated by gender (CBC News). Residential schooling caused tension and intergenerational suffering among native communities in Canada. Events of physical‚ sexual‚ and emotional

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    Residential schools were government sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Canadian culture. Some of the primary objectives of the residential schools were to remove and isolate children from their homes‚ cultures‚ traditions‚ and families. They believed the Aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were unequal and inferior. At first students were sent to the schools by their parents as some of the parents first believed that the school would be good for

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    appearance. The following paper is an attempt to give a thorough explanation on residential schools and their impact on Aboriginal people by examining theoretical perspectives on their current education. One must first examine why residential schools came into being. Fear of others results in the belief that some are superior while others are inferior beings‚ and the dominant white‚ European culture saw residential schools as a way for their “superior” culture to be taught to the “inferior” Aboriginal

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    To understand the reasoning behind the creation of residential schools you need to first understand the ideals of colonialism and imperialism and how they impacted decision-making by the government of Canada. Colonialism‚ as defined by Webster’s dictionary‚ is “control by one power over a dependent area or people” and imperialism is defined as “the extension or imposition of power‚ authority‚ or influence .” Therefore‚ as these two concepts go hand-in-hand‚ it is natural that combined they form

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