Eugenics Should Be Allowed In Residential Schools

Eugenics! Oh what a great movement. In residential schools, us religious teachers are very strong supporters in Christianity, therefore we would like to persuade everyone to believe in our faith and believe in god. God remains someone whom we keep close. Furthermore, one of our main strategies in the residential school is bringing any aboriginal child and converting them to Christianity. We wish that they do not absorb any other faith or culture. We believe Christianity is an extraordinarily important religion. However, in order to expand this religion, we must prevent any reproduction and make sure the students are medically sterilized foregoing entering the school. Students are sterilized simply because they are either abnormal or aboriginal. Enhancing the population is one of our main goals. Numerous principles in residential schools have the power to choose whom they would like to be medically

sterilized granted by the passing of the Sexual Sterilization Act of 1928. “The Sexual Sterilization Act allowed a Residential School Superintendent or Principal to order the sterilization of any Native person under his charge. As their legal guardian (due to parents having to sign over custody)” (D’Arcy Rheault) Stating that we are legal guardians of students, we are able to decide what happens to them. We are permitted to teach them the religion of our preference.
When children are removed from their homes and brought into residential schools, we become custodians of these students. Stating that the children are under 18, they are unable to be independent and decide for themselves. The age groups of students who enter these schools are from 4-14. At this age, it is a legal guardian who makes decisions for the child. As legal guardians, we want the best for the children. There are about 150,000 students at our 139 residential schools. We sterilize those who are considered “mental” or “abnormal”. The reason we sterilize the aboriginal children is because we need to show them what Christian society is like. We want to incorporate aboriginals into society so that they are not considered divergent. As residential teachers, we wish for any “mental” or “abnormal” child to get sterilized for the simple reason that we wish to enhance society. Having abnormal humans in society would not strengthen the population. We would like to teach them moral values and discourage any immoral elements in their life. As the “parents” of these students, preventing sexual activity is a strong goal nevertheless we are very religious people and do not believe in any of this. We also like to prevent any poor behavior for future generations. If students misbehave, they would be sterilized instantly preventing any reproduction. As Christians and Nuns, we would like them to follow our beliefs and our footsteps. Provided that these sterilization’s are legal and supported by the government, it makes our actions ethical. Most of the aboriginals are sterilized before entering our religious schools to prevent any reproduction. “In some schools, it was standard practice to sterilize every boy who lived long enough to reach puberty.” (Cherrington, 2007) Boys are sterilized either by a vasectomy or orchiectomy. A vasectomy is to cut the tubes in male’s genitals to stop the sperm. An orchiectomy is to completely remove the testicles. Vasectomies are most common. We try our best to separate the girls and boys to prevent any sexual tension. The main reason of sterilizing aboriginals is to prevent people from producing children who are not Christian. The greater amount of people who are born non-Christian, the greater amount of teaching that has to be done.
Providing this information, us residential teachers have a strong belief in the Christian faith. Religion, culture and faith are significantly powerful to us. When aboriginals are about 4 years old, they make their way to a residential school. However, if their parent does not send them away, it may result in jail time. It is illegal to not go to a religious school. As a believer in the Christian religion, it continues to be difficult to have students in our school who are not educated enough regarding our religion. One of our main goals is to civilize these native students. We would like to convert as many people as we can to the Christian religion for their own benefit. Any other religion that exists is considered deficient compared to ours. We believe the Christian faith is a great example of civilization. There is no harm in persuading others to believe in our views. We are just teaching others what we have learnt stating that we believe this is the right action. “At our school we strive to turn them into mature Christians who will learn how to behave in the world and surrender their barbaric way of life and their treaty rights, which keep them trapped on their land and in a primitive existence. Only then will the Indian problem in our country be solved.” (Reverend A.E Caldwell) When an aboriginal person reproduces, it is another generation of non-Christian believers. For example, if a native student enters our school and ends up getting pregnant with triplets, that is three extra humans on this earth that we must convert. Each principle of a residential school has the freedom to decide whom they would require to be sterilized. Principles chose to sterilize these aboriginals to assist in enhancing the Christian faith and prevent another generation of aboriginals.
To conclude, as religious residential teachers, we agree with eugenics.

We believe that students should be sterilized if they are aboriginal. Aboriginal children in our schools must all learn the Christian faith. If these students would reproduce, it would be additional humans in our population, which would mean a significant amount of people to convert. It would be a harder task, which is why they are sterilized. We also sterilize people who are abnormal. Our goal is to enhance our society, not weaken it. We would like to erase every native part of them and bring them into the Christian civilization. This is moral behavior taking into consideration that we are the legal guardians of any student who enters a residential school. Most of the students in these schools live there. Since they are not with their family for the time being, the parents must sign away custody to us residential teachers. We only do what we believe is best for them as if they were our own child. We believe that eugenics is important since it happens to be a great way of enhancing our

population.