The primary purpose of the residential school system in Canadian society involved enhancing the assimilation of the communities into civilization. An excellent example encompassed the government’s focus on forcing indigenous communities to learn modern education and abolish the traditional practice.
It is a practice that steered the cultural aspect of assimilating the indigenous communities’ children through forced separation to attend school and adopt civilized life. Although the core initiative entailed advocating for growth and development, the method used in the process caused trauma among families from the separation of parents from their offspring for civilization’s essence.