Some (most) people who attended residential schools took the pain out on themselves, which led to addictions to gasoline sniffing, drug abuse, and alcohol abuse. Drug and alcohol abuse only made them more vulnerable. You can't erase the damage done or make someone forget all the times they were beaten, raped, or discriminated against. A large number of these people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, insomnia, uncontrollable anger, addictions, eating disorders, etc. and none of which can be solved with excuses or programs (Johnston, 51. There has been at least 5 or 6 generations affected by the ripple effect of residential schools, turning them into angry outsiders, poorly educated and inexperienced in parenting. The punishment that these people had to face stuck with them for a long time, they were humiliated for doing simple things that were punished unreasonably Aboriginal people suffered a lot, facing discrimination, deculturalization and abuse and many of them should not have grown up in. this way, surrounded by people they didn't trust, by incest, rapists and molesters they were forced into an unsafe learning environment that did nothing but teach them, but rather scare them for life generations and generations of people,