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Blistex is right about the schools and also another thing that sucks is education on the rez is so flipping bad I was teaching a girl in grade 7 who couldn't spell the word "truck" at 12 years old because she was so hosed up from her and her whole family huffing insane amounts of gasoline. But she would get pushed through grades anyway so her rez could report a shiny report on how many kids finished grades. The first nation high school I worked with only taught the college level courses meaning those kids couldn't even go to university if they wanted to and were smart enough to, which many were. Then I recently worked with a girl who is incredibly smart and a hard worker and someone at a Shoppers wouldn't sell her a bottle of listerene.
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Do it ironically posted:man that sucks listerine gets you a lot of shoppers optimum points, and if it was a double day then super sucks yes she was really upset and I have an inkling that this was the reason
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Nov 25, 2015 17:11
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Honestly it would probably make you sound like a racist to boot but a lot of the issues and crazy poo poo are not isolated incidents. My partner works extensively with adult aboriginal learners who never got to learn how to read or write properly and they try so hard, one who struggled really badly with alcoholism was so nice and wanted to better his life but he was found dead recently after passing out and falling in a river. The worst is the kids who just get failed by every single person and system that are supposed to support them. Just completely burdened by insitutionalized racism, lateral violence, racism and nepotism 
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Nov 25, 2015 17:40
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the lateral violence gets so ugly too, you could drum and dance and sing and smudge, do everything you're supposed to but chances are someone else's teachings are different and therefore you're Wrong And Bad.
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Nov 25, 2015 18:45
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ya but let's not forget it can be difficult to figure out how to live in a good way when you grow up in a community where there's been a boil water advisory for 20 years (Neskantaga), the highest rate of suicide per capita on the entire planet (Pikangikum) or crippling dependance on opiods/gas huffing (too many to name unfortunately) and the only message being thrown at you consistently is "its not your fault" and "the medicine wheel". fastest growing population in Canada with 50% under 30 and 50% of that under 15 so we need to find better ways to invest in what is essentially the demo that's going to be deciding a lot of Canadas future
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Nov 25, 2015 22:13
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Professor Shark posted:I once had another teacher explain to me that when she first started teaching she had a lot of problems with the First Nations students, but then she learned to adapt as a teacher to their culture. No. she is wrong and her students were wrong. "Indian Time" was never traditionally "whenever the gently caress I feel like it" it was based on when it was appropriate. say you had to go help your neighbor, but first you had to make your kids breakfast, check your trap lines etc, you wouldn't rush those things because it winds up being less productive, and this was a time when productivity was crucial for survival. So it meant you'd get that stuff done first and then go help your neighbor after-when it was the right time. Some people think there's no concept of time but that's simply not true. Time is an abstract construct anyway and traditionally it was just valued differently.
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Nov 25, 2015 22:20
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, so she just started showing up for classes with mostly First Nations students ~10 minutes later than her other classes. Also, because they don't know how to be Good Students, First Nations students cannot be expected to follow the same classroom behavioral standards/ academic standards as other (White) students, so she teaches everything to them a few notches below their grade level and marks them easier.