what time-line is she talking about? It was thought, then, that thses schools were a 'good tthing' - intended to educate the native children in a way they could not be at home. The general attitude of most people [ see the archives of various papers] was 'thank goodness the [C]hurches are doing something.
NOW of course, all sorts of unpleasant, and in many cases, criminal, activity have come to light and with the wisdom of hindsight we can say that after a certain point, the schools were 'bad'. But as they were originally intended, they started out as a good thing.