In canada there are bigots who claim that the residential schools were good for the indigenous peoples too.
In these schools, kids were ripped away from their families and homes and beaten until they stopped using their language and culture. The written goal of the school was to take the savage out of the Indian.
How anyone can try to spin these horrific events into a positive is beyond disgusting.
Did the catholic church apologize for the mass graves of native canadians found near those schools yet? I know the churches of other denominations that ran these schools have issued apologies.
Point SS.68.AA.2.3
"Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural
work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing,
transportation).
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be
applied for their personal benefit."
I don't think this is that terrible. It's not quite as absurd as "BLACKS BENEFITED FROM SLAVERY!" It seems worth mentioning that the skills developed during servitude may have contributed to their ability to integrate into society post-slavery. I mean, the whole paper is chock full of things that show slavery in a negative light. I don't think there were negative intentions in this. You can count on the news to write a good headline, though.