Some (most) residential school residents endured pain, which led to an addiction to gasoline sniffing, drug addiction, and drug abuse alcohol. Drug and alcohol abuse only makes them more vulnerable. You can't undo the damage done or make someone forget all the times they were hit, raped, or discriminated against. Many of these people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, insomnia, uncontrollable anger, addictions, eating disorders, etc. and none of these problems can be solved by excuses or programs (Johnston, 51. There have been at least five or six generations affected by the ripple effect of residential schools, turning into angry outsiders , poorly educated and inexperienced in parenting. The punishment that these people suffered also marked them for a long time, they were humiliated for doing simple things that they did. The Aboriginal people suffered a lot, were discriminated against. , deculturalization and abuse and many have managed to survive this way, surrounded by people they cannot trust, incest, rapists and attackers have been forced to evolve in an environment of. dangerous learning that did nothing other than teach them, but rather mark them for life. A school should not mark generations and generations of people..,