"No you don't get to choose which school your child goes to.  No you can't pull your kid if you hear some of the staff are bad... Many of the staff are good people and many of the kids will turn out just fine!  The good ones will move to the city and the bad ones will return to your town.  Please sign here..."

Could you imagine what the crowd that supports the Conservatives would say if a program like the above would be proposed for their children?  

Even for those who weren't abused sexually or physically, everyone was still forcibly removed from their family and forced to adopt the state mandated culture/religion/language.  

BTW if there were only good times to be had at Residential School, there would never have been a Truth and Reconciliation commission.  Of course it focused on the "negative"...