...Reconciliation Payments for All Indian Residential School Survivors CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION February 2005 PREFACE The Canadian Bar Association is a national association representing 38,000 jurists, including lawyers, notaries, law teachers and students across Canada. The Association’s primary objectives include improvement in the law and in the administration of justice. This submission was prepared by the National Aboriginal Law and the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections of the Canadian Bar Association, with assistance from the Legislation and Law Reform Directorate at the National Office. The submission has been reviewed by the Legislation and Law Reform Committee and approved as a public statement of the Canadian Bar Association. The Logical Next Step: Reconciliation Payments for All Indian Residential School Survivors Executive Summary At its Annual Meeting in August 2004, the Canadian Bar Association adopted a resolution1 calling for the government to go beyond the existing Indian Residential Schools Dispute Resolution process to provide a base payment to all survivors of Indian Residential Schools. The CBA recognizes the tragic legacy of Indian Residential Schools and the failure of the current options of either litigatio n or the dispute resolution process to resolve the situation. The harms caused by Indian Residential Schools are still profoundly felt by the individual students who attended the schools, as well as their families, communities and...
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...Company Background This report is a comprehensive marketing plan for Burlington Sporting Goods, located in Alamance County, NC. Burlington Sporting Goods (BSG) is Alamance County’s oldest sporting goods store. Since the store opened in October 1947, BSG has offered a wide variety of sport related products and services to the people of Burlington and Graham. Along with retail sporting goods and apparel, BSG offers corporate screen-printing for team uniforms, a basketball facility and an indoor batting facility. The batting facility features a completely enclosed 70' x 70' batting cage with nine token operated pitching machines. Additionally, BSG offers Nike SPARQ training and hosts birthday parties and summer camps for basketball, cheerleading and baseball. Mission Burlington Sporting Goods strives to foster mutually beneficial ties in Alamance County. Since we opened our doors in October 1947, Burlington Sporting Goods has provided the towns of Graham and Burlington with a wealth of services for all their athletic and sport needs. We're the oldest sporting goods store in Alamance County, and we take pride in providing Alamance County with our team-oriented and friendly staff (BSG, 2013). The following plan is designed to boost the financial success and brand equity of Burlington Sporting Goods in order to help the organization achieve and maintain its stated mission. It features an analysis of BSG’s current position within its market, an analysis of the organization’s target...
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...until the 1990’s, life was not diverting due to the Residential School systems. Canada has been struggling to gain the forgiveness of the Residential School attendants and gladly, they had finally accepted our apologies, but will they ever forgive themselves for not being one of us? During the twentieth century, Residential Schools became widespread in all Canadian provinces and territories except Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. Aboriginal children had been seized from their homes and had been placed into these ‘boarding schools’. They had to do labour work, live with complete strangers, and also study the Canadian culture just to kill the Indian in the Child. The young children had to do all of this for the government while being abused. Sexually, physically and mentally. About one hundred and fifty thousand children were placed into this horrid living and only eighty thousand made it out alive as in two thousand and eight. In order for us to be forgiven, we did two acts that will never make up for what our country had done to them. We wrote a state of apology that was read in front of a crowd of survivors. We had also given each of them a generous amount of money as a materialistic apology. But how did the aboriginal community act upon the materialistic goods and apology? Has Canada as a whole done enough to heal the wounds of aboriginal students that had attended the Residential schools? Firstly, Canada had a requirement to make an apology to...
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...Indian School Days Book Review Justin Delorme Introduction The book, “Indian School Days” is an autobiography of the author Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe native from Wasauksing First Nation, in Ontario. This piece by Author, “Basil Johnston”, gives the reader more and more evidence of the structural lifestyle of the Spanish Indian residential school. From the very beginning his writing style links the reader to never put down the book, it is full of action and true events that took place during his lifetime. The book starts off with Mr. Johnston as a young child of ten years, skipping school with another student, an act that they didn’t think would get them both shipped off to a residential school. But as fortunes and his unfortunate luck would have it, the feared Indian agent showed up to Basils door and took himself, along with his 4 year old sister to St. Peter Clavers School, a boarding school run by Jesuit priests at Spanish, which was close to Sudbury, Ontario. With the fear of police and punishment his mother and grandmother got both children ready and there was nothing nobody could say or do to change the mind of the Indian agent. In the pages that were to follow, Basil creates many portraits of the young Indian boys who struggle to adapt to the harsh and inhumane environment of this institution. By looking at some key examples from the book that Basil Johnston wrote, it will show the reader why this would be a good book to read as his writing style is from his own...
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...The Residential school system in Canada was a system devoted to providing a disciplined based ideal that promoted the rejection of the aboriginal culture in favor of the then dominant white European population. The teaching strategies that were encouraged ranged from pulling children as young as six away from their parents to mental, physical and sexual abuse. The Residential schools were run by a variety of participating church organizations, which received funding from the Canadian government. The funding was based on a per aboriginal basis therefore it was in the best interests of the churches to enroll as many aboriginal students as possible. The schools were run in almost every province in Canada from 1860-1884 and claimed to be promoting religious and cultural assimilation. However, the cruelty that was experienced by many young aboriginals in the residential schools emphasizes the differences between the aboriginal societies and the European dominant society making complete assimilation impossible. The imposition of residential schools on First Nations children has led to significant loss of indigenous languages, and this language loss has led to further cultural losses for traditional First Nations cultures in Canada. The earliest known date opening of a Residential school was in 1840, located in Manitowaning, Ontario. The school was the Wikemikong Indian Residential School, it closed in 1879. The last Residential school to close was La Tuque Indian...
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...The residential schools of Canada can be dated back to the 1870s. Before 1996, when the last of 170 schools were closed, an estimated 150,000 indigenous youth were forced to attend. In an attempt to blend indigenous youth into Canadian society, both the Canadian government and Christian churches believed educating and converting the youth would achieve their goal of integrating them into Canadian society (Miller, 2014). The infliction of economic self sufficiency and religious conversion caused the loss of languages which further resulted in the loss of culture among traditional indigenous peoples. The death of a language is more complex than simply a loss of communication, it is a loss of knowledge. "The wisdom of humanity is summarized in...
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...Why some say the American Education System is failing, Why some say it’s not Liz Sanders As Jeff Daniels’ character in The Newsroom put it, we’re 7th in Literacy, 27th in Math, and 22nd in Science (The Newsroom, 2012). America used to be an educated country; now we just base our opinions on what we get from social media, and the people around us. In this piece, I’m going to look at why some people think the American Education System is failing, and why some people think it’s not. What does it mean to fail? A bad grade in one of your classes? Falling behind, and not being able to catch up? Here, we’re going to look at the problem surrounding the failing American Education System. In an article from Foreign Affairs magazine, it’s stated...
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...Education Reform in America’s High Schools ENG 102: English Composition II April 7, 2014 Education Reform in America’s High Schools The American education system’s history goes back to the early colonial day where the students were taught differently and the Bible was a major part of education. American schools are failing and the reason why is that they are suppressing children to a base model of education. All children learn naturally because they are born to be curious, creative, and intrinsic motivated. There is a great many parents, students and educators who believe education reform is greatly needed in American society today is very complex and ever changing, and a high school diploma is very necessary to compete for jobs in any given career. But, the U.S. now has the highest dropout rate today in many years and if some major education reform is not implicated the U.S. will fall farther down on the list of countries who are failing to meet the need for continuous production of quality students to contribute to society. This paper will discuss how the Education System in the United States is failing students. By asking probing questions that looks at education reform from the top with the federal and state governments, to the educator and administrators, the parents and students and what are some possible avenues or changes can be taken to improve the educational system in the United States. What is education reform? Education reform has been forever...
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...Fixing America's public education system won't be easy -- but together, it's possible. The Waiting for "Superman" social action campaign has one primary goal: to ensure that every child receives a great education. The campaign seeks to build public awareness, ignite personal involvement and inspire real social change. The campaign's four core initiatives are: • Setting academic standards that are on par with the world's best • Recruiting and rewarding great teachers • Creating and nurturing excellent schools, and • Increasing literacy rates The following pages are your toolkit for educational reform. Learn more about the Waiting For "Superman" initiatives below, and find ways to take action with our "Help Your School" and "Fix the System" tips throughout this site. Help our students get the quality education they deserve. Our country's future depends on it. And every child deserves a great education. Every child deserves a great teacher. In other industries, the best employees are acknowledged for their exceptional contributions. A career in teaching should be no different. We can produce world-class students only if we train and support world-class teachers. There's no question that our current educational system is failing our students. The statistics are staggering: among 30 developed countries, the U.S. is ranked 25th in math and 21st in science. We need to better prepare today's generation of students starting NOW. The future depends on it. A child's destiny...
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...“Placing blame for the failing educational system” Nothing is more vital to this nation’s success than the future of a good education system. Most Americans have good reason to be concerned with our current educational system which is failing miserably. The United States used to be a leader in education. Now it has dropped in rank due to things such as: poor performance from teachers /students, low test scores, overcrowded class rooms, high school drop outs, and underfunded federal programs. We face solid competition in higher education from nations like; China, Latin America, India, and Singapore. The United States government tried to raise the standards when congress introduced a new bill called “The No Child Left Behind” act. Unfortunately, this bill that former President George W. Bush signed left many Americans unimpressed. Although, I do commend our government for trying to address this critical issue, many people found this bill to be far from the change we needed. Our educational systems are swamped with all the politically correct information and the testing requirements, that we have lost sight of some value basic information. Many students are able to remember book knowledge, but cannot display basic common sense. Although, I know that classes like “cooking” are not popular anymore, but maybe a small part should be mandatory. Teaching children about balancing their personal budgets might lead to someone helping our national debt. And if they learned about nutrition...
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...that the failing of schools is getting worse. The reformers of public education are not making much of an effort on this failing educational system. The movie explains public education system is about keeping the teachers unions happy, and having them line their own pockets at the expense of our children’s education. Charter schools being the hot spot where motivated parents are trying to send their children, however there is a limited space and a lot of applicants, the children are placed in the hands of luck. The American Federation of Teachers has been the most powerful and active teachers union. The teachers of today are a lot different from the teachers of the past decade. Today most teachers are unmotivated educators who have quit doing their job precisely. Teachers unions have guaranteed a life time job security to teachers. It doesn’t matter if you are resulting in high test scores in your classroom or low ones. It has become close to impossible to fire an underserving teacher due to tenure. Tenure was first brought up in Universities protecting professors from being fired for non-educational reasons. This has carried on to public schools. Teachers are to teach a certain number of years and after they are granted tenure. Teachers unions have only helped themselves in this matter, bad teachers cannot be fired. The “lemon dance” is the only option for principal’s to get rid of bad teachers and trade them in with better ones (Davis Guggenheim). Charter schools were created...
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...In “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s”, Carl Singleton emphasizes that America’s education system could benefit from the idea of giving F’s to students who deserve them. Singleton believes that if education systems throughout the United States would raise their standards and start giving out failing grades, student’s motivation to learn the material would increase. He strongly advocates that all parties involved with the education system: teachers, parents, and the school boards contribute to the system’s failure. Singleton feels that teachers contribute by passing undeserving students who have not learned the required class material. He also states that parents would become more engaged with their children’s studies if they brought home more F’s. When it comes to the school boards, he says that students failing would cause schools to receive more funds. Overall, Singleton strongly believes that failing more students would better America’s education system (192-194). Carl Singleton, a Fort Hays State University faculty member and author of “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s”, from Writing from Sources, strongly believes that students who do not understand the required knowledge for a class should be given an F. In his article, Singleton claims: “The basic problem of our educational system is the common practice of giving credit where none has been earned . . .” (192). He states that, the main issue within America’s educational system is that students are receiving...
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...adults and certainly not the elderly. They tend to only look out for their own; they figured they didn’t need any moral guidance. Throughout the rest of the chapter Bly goes on to depict a number of troubling trends that have arrived since the rise of the sibling society. “What it takes to Make a Student” by Paul Tough, Is a riveting story about the child-rearing styles of middle-class and low-income families. The article continues to go into great detail about failing school systems and a new source of help for struggling students; which leads Tough to the “Knowledge Is Power Program” (K.I.P.P) (6.) a program that specializes in educating “low-income and minority students to catch up in math and reading” (page 7). It explores the techniques that worked to improve the students’ learning as well as their behavior. Although Bly and Tough use different approaches to their subjects, the two writers share several of the same concerns about today's youth. One similarity that Bly and Tough share is an anger for failing school systems. One of our biggest problems is that we as a society make too many excuses for our failures. As a society we need to come together and stop making excuses for our children; reach one teach one. He claims some people would rather sweep it under the rug or believe that everything is fine and that there is no need for change (6). Every child learns differently and should be allowed to do so freely. As educators, teachers should be well aware of new techniques...
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...Grand Canyon University Purpose of Intervention There is a fundamental belief that every child has value and that every child should be accounted for in terms of providing a quality education. Schools have had trouble trying to embrace the notion that no student should be allowed to fail. Leadership with in any school should embrace the philosophy that no student should be allowed to fail and apply it to the school culture and implement a program that coordinates the schools’ s mission statement of maximizing achievement with the school improvement goals. In 2006, pyramid of intervention was a response to the intervention component of the Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (IDEIA). Response to Intervention or (RTI) is often associated with Pyramid of Intervention using a continuum-based process that focuses on access to high quality, evidence based instruction, data-driven decision making, a tiered model of supports and a systems level approach to improving academic and behavioral outcomes (McIntosh, 2011). Pyramid of Intervention This pyramid came out of the IDEIA law that wanted to address increasingly diverse classrooms and the demands and opportunities of what has come to be coined “21st century learning.” There is a prevailing thought that the high-quality inclusive education is an issue of social justice and important to developing the human capital that is needed in today’s societies. What has emerged is a growing preference towards empowering the...
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...at the failings of the U.S. school system. The film follows five students across the U.S., who range in grade level from kindergarten to eighth grade, as they try and escape the public school system through a lottery for a chance admission to a charter school. Guggenheim lays the blame for the failing public education system at the feet of the various teachers unions, and makes a plea for the public in general to get involved in reforming the system. By analyzing Waiting for Superman through a sociological perspective, issues of inequality will be explained using the theoretical approach of the conflict perspective. Waiting for Superman begins with the director, David Guggenheim driving past the Los Angeles public schools as he takes his own children to a private school. Guggenheim starts to explain the problems with public education, in regards to how it is failing our society in general, and that the only way for the average family to escape it, is luck. The documentary follows five children, four are minorities from lower income families and one is white from an affluent area of California. All five face the same problem, a public education system that views them as numbers that feed the system. They are not considered for their individual talents or shortcomings. They are all doomed to follow a predestined track, developed by a bureaucracy that favors the welfare of the teachers over the students. Guggenheim presents to the audience charter schools, an alternative...
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