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The Ontario Educational Context
As part of the College’s mandate to regulate the profession, and to commemorate and honour survivors of the Federal Indian Day School System, we hope to co-create and jointly support healing and Indigenous educational wellness.
“Placing students’ interests and well- being first by regulating and promoting excellence in teaching.”
– The Ontario College of Teachers, 2018
The historical context that acknowledges the need for healing was described by Carolyn Bennet:
As a result of the harmful and discriminatory government policies at the time, students who attended these schools were subject to sexual, physical, and psychological abuse and forced to abandon their language and culture. Survivors across this country continue to suffer from the abuse and horrific experiences
they were subjected to, which were perpetuated by the very people charged with educating them
as children.
– (Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett, December 20186)
6 https://www.cpac.ca/en/programs/headline-politics/ episodes/65894245/
6 Commemoration • Education • Healing/Wellness