It's really hard to appreciate and try to retcon how things used to be in different eras than our own.
Your comment made me think about the life of Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book.
He was born in 1865 to British parents in India. At the age of 5, along with his 3-year-old sister, his parents sent him back to England, as apparently was custom, to live with another couple and go to boarding school.
Apparently he was abused by his foster family for seven years before his mother finally came back from India to pick him up.
And this all was done voluntarily by British aristocrat parents that thought "this was best for him". This had nothing to do with religion or racism or government overreach or genocide.
Children were just valued differently back in the day.
So were residential school good or bad boys?
It's really hard to appreciate and try to retcon how things used to be in different eras than our own.
Your comment made me think about the life of Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book.
He was born in 1865 to British parents in India. At the age of 5, along with his 3-year-old sister, his parents sent him back to England, as apparently was custom, to live with another couple and go to boarding school.
Apparently he was abused by his foster family for seven years before his mother finally came back from India to pick him up.
And this all was done voluntarily by British aristocrat parents that thought "this was best for him". This had nothing to do with religion or racism or government overreach or genocide.
Children were just valued differently back in the day.