Discredited social studies lesson on residential schools cartoonish, simplistic, say experts

Melissa Purcell was shocked when she saw a social studies lesson that described Canada’s residential school education as “generally appropriate.”
“That does not capture the residential school experiences of our First Nations, Métis and Inuit across the country,” said Purcell, an Alberta Teachers’ Association staff officer in professional development and Indigenous education.
Purcell, who leads the Walking Together — Education for Reconciliation pr