Missouri boarding school under investigation will shut down

1 year, 11 months ago

Missouri boarding school under investigation will shut down

Associated Press

A Christian boarding school in Missouri that’s been under intense scrutiny over abuse allegations announced Wednesday that it will close later this month due to financial hardship. Agape Boarding School in Stockton has been the subject of state and location investigations and several lawsuits from former students. Clemensen said the decision to close “is voluntary and solely due to the lack of financial resources to continue caring for the boys.” Agape’s trouble began in 2020 when former students came forward with abuse allegations. One former Agape student who sued, Robert Bucklin, said the closure means justice “has finally prevailed.” “Today, the many victims who have come forth can rest assured that no more children will be hurt at Agape Boarding School,” Bucklin said in a text.

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Investigation sought of abuse allegations at Christian boarding schools in Missouri

7 months, 1 week ago

Investigation sought of abuse allegations at Christian boarding schools in Missouri

LA Times

Amanda Householder, left, speaks outside the St. Louis office of Missouri Atty. They were among a group of activists urging Bailey to investigate allegations of child abuse at Christian boarding schools in southern Missouri. Advocates for victims of abuse at Missouri boarding schools urged the state’s attorney general to launch an investigation, work with local prosecutors and take other steps …

Abuse victim advocates pushing Missouri AG to investigate Christian boarding schools

7 months, 1 week ago

Abuse victim advocates pushing Missouri AG to investigate Christian boarding schools

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Advocates for victims of abuse at Missouri boarding schools on Monday urged the state’s attorney general to launch an investigation, work with local prosecutors and take other steps aimed at stemming the tide of abuse. Three Christian boarding schools in southern Missouri have shut down since 2020 amid wide-ranging abuse allegations levied by current and former students. …

A Missouri boarding school employee is charged with abuse

9 months, 2 weeks ago

A Missouri boarding school employee is charged with abuse

Associated Press

An employee of a rural Missouri boarding school is accused of bloodying a boy’s face while boxing — the third person associated with the same school to be charged this month. A probable cause statement said Sandoval is a teacher at ABM Ministries in Piedmont, Missouri, which operates as Lighthouse Christian Academy. ABM Ministries is a private Christian boarding school …

The owners of a Christian boarding school in Missouri are jailed and charged with kidnapping crimes

9 months, 2 weeks ago

The owners of a Christian boarding school in Missouri are jailed and charged with kidnapping crimes

Associated Press

The husband and wife owners of a Missouri boarding school for boys have been jailed and charged with felony crimes after a lengthy investigation by a county sheriff. Wayne County Sheriff Dean Finch said in a news release that Larry Musgraves Jr., 57, was arrested Friday evening on the ABM Ministries campus in Piedmont, a small town 130 miles south …

Mother files wrongful death lawsuit against now-closed Christian boarding school in Missouri

1 year, 2 months ago

Mother files wrongful death lawsuit against now-closed Christian boarding school in Missouri

The Independent

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Fate of Missouri boarding school on hold as hearings delayed

2 years, 2 months ago

Fate of Missouri boarding school on hold as hearings delayed

Associated Press

Hearings are again on hold in the state of Missouri’s effort to shut down a Christian boarding school whose staff members have been accused of abuse by numerous current and former students. Cedar County Associate Circuit Judge Thomas Pyle on Tuesday canceled hearings that had been scheduled for Thursday and Friday to consider Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s request to …

New judge lets Missouri boarding school stay open for now

2 years, 2 months ago

New judge lets Missouri boarding school stay open for now

Associated Press

A Missouri judge on Tuesday allowed a Christian boarding school to remain open for now, scheduling two days of hearings in October to determine its fate after multiple current and former students alleged widespread abuse. Cedar County Associate Circuit Judge Thomas Pyle’s ruling came a day after he took over the case involving Agape Boarding School in Stockton. The Missouri …

Missouri House speaker urges feds to shut down Agape school

2 years, 2 months ago

Missouri House speaker urges feds to shut down Agape school

Associated Press

The speaker of the Missouri House is urging the U.S. attorney in Kansas City to shut down Agape Boarding School, accusing the Christian school of “what amounts to organized crime against children.” Republican House Speaker Rob Vescovo sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore that was made available to reporters on Monday. The new petition said Agape’s director …

Hearing to determine if Missouri boarding school will close

2 years, 3 months ago

Hearing to determine if Missouri boarding school will close

Associated Press

A Missouri boarding school already under scrutiny amid physical and sexual abuse allegations may soon be shut down, following a judge’s ruling. Cedar County Circuit Judge David Munton signed an order Wednesday night to close Agape Boarding School in Stockton after the Missouri attorney general’s office and the state Department of Social Services filed petitions citing evidence that someone on …

Missouri regulates boarding schools after abuse allegations

2 years, 8 months ago

Missouri regulates boarding schools after abuse allegations

Associated Press

Maggie Drew’s dad sent her to Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch in Missouri in 2007, hoping strict Christian teachings would stop his 14-year-old daughter’s teenage rebellion. They are among dozens of people who say they were abused at either Circle of Hope or Agape Boarding School — allegations that helped prompt a new Missouri law aimed at reining in religious …

5 Missouri boarding school employees charged with abuse

3 years, 2 months ago

5 Missouri boarding school employees charged with abuse

Associated Press

— A southwest Missouri prosecutor said Tuesday he has charged five employees of a private Christian boarding school with abusing students — far fewer than the number of charges recommended by state investigators. The five employees of the Agape Boarding School near Stockton were charged with a total of 13 third-degree felony assault counts, Cedar County Prosecuting Attorney Ty Gaither …

Texas teen with autism sues Missouri boarding school

3 years, 4 months ago

Texas teen with autism sues Missouri boarding school

Associated Press

— A Christian boarding school in southwest Missouri has been sued three times this month over allegations that students were abused. The latest of the lawsuits was filed Tuesday in Cedar County Circuit Court on behalf of a Texas teen with autism and bipolar disorder. It accuses Agape Baptist Church, which operates Agape Boarding School, of negligence, infliction of emotional …

Missouri Christian boarding school probed over abuse claims

4 years, 3 months ago

Missouri Christian boarding school probed over abuse claims

Associated Press

— Authorities are investigating a Christian boarding school from which around 20 girls were removed after former residents turned to social media to describe abuse in a case that has focused attention on a Missouri law that exempts faith-based schools from oversight. In recent years, the state has substantiated four reports of abuse and neglect involving the Circle of Hope …

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Family of teen killed in shooting sues Tuskegee University for wrongful death

1 month ago

Family of teen killed in shooting sues Tuskegee University for wrongful death

LA Times

This image taken from video shows evidence markers at the scene of a shooting Nov. 10 at Tuskegee University in Alabama. The parents of an 18-year-old who was killed in a hail of gunfire at Tuskegee University filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday, saying the school failed to provide adequate security measures that could have prevented the fatal shooting. “It’s …

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Majority Black Louisiana elementary school to shut down amid lawsuits over toxic air exposure

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Majority Black Louisiana elementary school to shut down amid lawsuits over toxic air exposure

Associated Press

— A southeast Louisiana school board voted on Thursday to shut down a predominantly Black elementary school adjacent to a petrochemical facility embroiled in multiple lawsuits linked to its high levels of toxic emissions. Denka’s spokesperson said the EPA is relying on “an overly conservative risk assessment.” In June, the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund filed a separate motion for the …

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A Century of Abuse: The Unfathomable Legacy of Boarding Schools on Native American Tribes

2 months ago

A Century of Abuse: The Unfathomable Legacy of Boarding Schools on Native American Tribes

Associated Press

The article details the horrific history of forced assimilation and abuse of Native American children in the United States. It highlights the 150-year campaign by the U.S. government to break up Native American culture, language and identity through boarding schools. The survivors of these schools suffer from generational trauma and struggle with substance abuse, broken relationships, and other social problems …

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A book that revealed the ‘entire story’ of Indian boarding schools would be important. This isn’t it.

2 months, 2 weeks ago

A book that revealed the ‘entire story’ of Indian boarding schools would be important. This isn’t it.

LA Times

Students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska, in the summer of 1883. Book Review The Plot against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands By Bill Vaughn Pegasus Books, 256 pages, $29.95 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose …

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Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in abusive US boarding schools

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in abusive US boarding schools

Hindustan Times

— At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools. Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in abusive US boarding schools The investigation commissioned by Interior Sec. “The federal government …

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Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools

Associated Press

— At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior Department officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools. The investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. …

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Nearly 1,000 Indigenous children died in US boarding schools, report finds

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Nearly 1,000 Indigenous children died in US boarding schools, report finds

Al Jazeera

US gov’t report finds dozens of marked and unmarked graves at institutions Indigenous children were forced to attend. At least 973 Indigenous children died while attending boarding schools run or supported by the United States government, a federal report has found, prompting calls for an apology for the pain suffered at the abuse-riddled institutions. “The Road to Healing does not …

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Oklahoma Supreme Court shuts down ‘unconstitutional’ taxpayer-funded Catholic school

5 months, 4 weeks ago

Oklahoma Supreme Court shuts down ‘unconstitutional’ taxpayer-funded Catholic school

The Independent

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Primary school in Oss to remain closed on Wednesday due to threats

6 months, 1 week ago

Primary school in Oss to remain closed on Wednesday due to threats

NL Times

Primary school IKC Regenboog in Oss will remain closed on Wednesday, a spokesperson said. The school shut its doors this week because students of group eight, who are around 11 or 12 years old, had been threatened. IKC Regenboog reported on Monday that threats to the school's children were sent via social media. “It is sad that we have to …

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LAUSD police deployment to 20 schools collapses after one day amid opposition, confusion

7 months, 1 week ago

LAUSD police deployment to 20 schools collapses after one day amid opposition, confusion

LA Times

Alberto Carvalho, right, meets with school police officers at Crenshaw High School after a campus fight in 2022. “Basically it’s not going to continue,” she said, but “it is going to give us the opportunity to set a date — which I’m working on now with the various school board members — to actually have a public safety discussion.” “We’re …

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L.A. student dies after safety team member allegedly does not intervene to stop fight

8 months ago

L.A. student dies after safety team member allegedly does not intervene to stop fight

LA Times

A police vehicle is parked in front of Washington Preparatory High School in South L.A. after a student was fatally shot at a nearby convenience store on April 15. Early in the week, after The Times published the first account of the moments before the shooting, district officials released a statement saying that the school system was reviewing “the events …

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I’ve spent years trying to unravel the damage of boarding school - Charles Spencer and Nicky Campbell are not alone

8 months, 3 weeks ago

I’ve spent years trying to unravel the damage of boarding school - Charles Spencer and Nicky Campbell are not alone

The Independent

It is well known that British boarding schools are favoured by the aristocracy and deemed to confer social advantage on their alumni. open image in gallery Spencer with his older sister, Diana, in 1968 A pattern of symptoms and common behaviours emerged, and I named it “boarding school syndrome”. Trying to make sense of the feelings he experienced at the …

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Survivors say trauma from abusive Native American boarding schools stretches across generations

1 year, 1 month ago

Survivors say trauma from abusive Native American boarding schools stretches across generations

Associated Press

— Donovan Archambault was 11 years old in 1950 when he was sent from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana to a government-backed Native American boarding school in Pierre, South Dakota, where abusive staff forced him to abandon his community’s language and customs. “It was probably the most brutal time of my whole life,” Archambault recalled Sunday, “and it …

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1,800 students sent home after Raac found at London school

1 year, 3 months ago

1,800 students sent home after Raac found at London school

The Independent

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It’s Time To Be Honest About Native American Boarding Schools In The U.S.

1 year, 3 months ago

It’s Time To Be Honest About Native American Boarding Schools In The U.S.

Huff Post

It’s no secret that the church played a major role in imposing colonial rule in North America. But if you grew up under the American education system like me, you might’ve never learned about the Christian-run boarding schools that forcibly enrolled Native American children and then attempted to wipe out their culture. Recently, the National Native American Boarding School Healing …

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UP’s private schools to remain shut on Aug 8 over arrest of principal, teacher in Azamgarh girl suicide case: Report

1 year, 4 months ago

UP’s private schools to remain shut on Aug 8 over arrest of principal, teacher in Azamgarh girl suicide case: Report

Live Mint

In Uttar Pradesh on August 8, all private schools will remain shut to express anger against the arrest of the school principal and a teacher in Azamgarh, according to a report by Indiatvnews.com. The Unaided Private School Association of Uttar Pradesh has called for the closure of all private schools in the state tomorrow, said the report. Last week, in …

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Pvt schools in UP to be closed on Aug 8 in show of solidarity with arrested principal

1 year, 4 months ago

Pvt schools in UP to be closed on Aug 8 in show of solidarity with arrested principal

Hindustan Times

LUCKNOW All private schools affiliated to CBSE, ICSE and UP Board in Uttar Pradesh will remain closed on Tuesday to protest the arrest of a school principal and teacher in Azamgarh after a girl student jumped off the school building there on Monday and died, said Anil Agarwal, president of Unaided Private School Association, UP. The deceased student’s kin alleged …

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Missouri school board that voted to drop anti-racism resolution might consider a revised version

1 year, 4 months ago

Missouri school board that voted to drop anti-racism resolution might consider a revised version

Associated Press

— The president of the Missouri school board that voted to revoke its anti-racism resolution now says the resolution could be kept, but revised. But in a Facebook post Tuesday, board President Adam Bertrand said that although support for the 2020 resolution as written is unlikely, “there may be support of a rewrite or modification.” Bertrand said member Mark Ponder …

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School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution

1 year, 5 months ago

School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution

Associated Press

— In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. “This resolution means hope to me, hope of a better Francis Howell School District,” Thompson said. “It means setting …

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Greater Noida school ‘locks up’ students over pending fee; parents protest

1 year, 5 months ago

Greater Noida school ‘locks up’ students over pending fee; parents protest

Hindustan Times

A private school in Greater Noida allegedly locked up 20 students belonging to various classes from nursery to class 7 for several hours over non-payment of school fee on Tuesday. Parents alleged that the school administration identified around 20 students from different classes and kept them locked in a classroom for around three hours for “not paying the school fee”. …

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Hundreds of Floridians attend contentious school board meeting in Hernando County

1 year, 6 months ago

Hundreds of Floridians attend contentious school board meeting in Hernando County

NPR

Hundreds of Floridians attend contentious school board meeting in Hernando County Conservative forces are growing on several school boards in Florida. But in one county, some school board members have held back a right-wing attempt to remove a superintendent. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The kind of school board meeting we are about to hear could have taken place in any one …

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Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools

1 year, 11 months ago

Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools

Associated Press

LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. — During seventh grade at Phoenix Indian School, Pershlie Ami signed up to go on what the school called an “outing” — promoted as opportunities for Native American students to earn spending money off campus. “This is one step among many that we will take to strengthen and rebuild the bonds with the Native communities that federal …

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Schools are looking at all alternatives to avoid suspending students

1 year, 11 months ago

Schools are looking at all alternatives to avoid suspending students

Live Mint

More schools and community groups are taking a less punitive, more collaborative approach to discipline as behavior problems rise among children and teens. “For a lot of students, depression can look more like irritability, and students who have experienced post-traumatic stress are more likely to act out," says Sharon Hoover, co-director of the National Center for School Mental Health at …

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Ojai boarding school counselor with abuse history sexually abused student, suit alleges

2 years ago

Ojai boarding school counselor with abuse history sexually abused student, suit alleges

LA Times

A former student at the Thacher School is suing the prestigious Ojai boarding school, alleging she was repeatedly sexually abused by a counselor and soccer coach who was hired despite the headmaster knowing the man left an East Coast school because of an inappropriate relationship with a female student. “He took this trust and belief and used it against me …

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Missouri elementary school to be closed after radioactive waste discovered

2 years, 2 months ago

Missouri elementary school to be closed after radioactive waste discovered

The Independent

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Missouri school to close after radioactive waste report

2 years, 2 months ago

Missouri school to close after radioactive waste report

Associated Press

— A Missouri school board decided Tuesday to shut down a grade school that sits near a contaminated creek after a study funded by law firms involved in a class-action lawsuit found high levels of radioactive material inside the school. The school board, in a statement after the closed meeting, said the remediation is necessary but acknowledged “this is causing …

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Parents want more school security, but student activists push back. Inside the debate

2 years, 2 months ago

Parents want more school security, but student activists push back. Inside the debate

LA Times

As a parent in South Los Angeles, Prentis Hill has no doubt where he stands in the debate over school police and whether to eliminate them. The groups had been alarmed by statements from Carvalho and L.A. Police Chief Michel Moore who said after the Bernstein High death that school police play a valuable role on campus. “People feel uneasy …

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Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools

2 years, 2 months ago

Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools

Associated Press

— After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier was just four years old, she was put into a Native American boarding school in South Dakota and told her native Lakota language was “devil’s speak.” She recalls being locked in a basement at St. Francis Indian Mission School for weeks as punishment for breaking the school’s strict rules. “I’m going …

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Elite Ojai boarding school’s ex-headmaster molested Thacher student, suit alleges

2 years, 2 months ago

Elite Ojai boarding school’s ex-headmaster molested Thacher student, suit alleges

LA Times

A former student at the Thacher School is suing the prestigious Ojai boarding school, alleging it allowed its onetime headmaster to stalk and openly molest her before expelling her when she complained. The Board of Trustees said in a letter to the school community that Michael Mulligan’s name would be removed because of occasions in which he “failed to appropriately …

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Hurricane Ian closes some Florida schools indefinitely

2 years, 2 months ago

Hurricane Ian closes some Florida schools indefinitely

Associated Press

The devastation from Hurricane Ian has left schools shuttered indefinitely in parts of Florida, leaving storm-weary families anxious for word on when and how children can get back to classrooms. “Every morning, I’m almost in tears.” The hurricane damaged the roof of her house, and the family lost power for three days. Sacerdote compared regions that are harder hit by …

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Indictment: Boy forcibly taken to Missouri boarding school

2 years, 3 months ago

Indictment: Boy forcibly taken to Missouri boarding school

Associated Press

The mother of a California teenager conspired with a former Missouri boarding school dean on a plan that resulted in the boy being forced into a car, handcuffed for more than 24 hours and driven to a Missouri school for troubled youths, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Fresno said Sandoval is founder of an agency that …

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Missouri school district reinstates spanking if parents OK

2 years, 3 months ago

Missouri school district reinstates spanking if parents OK

Associated Press

A school district in southwestern Missouri decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students — if their parents agree — despite warnings from many public health experts that the practice is detrimental to students. I was one of them.” Morgan Craven, national director of policy, advocacy and community engagement with the Intercultural Development Research Association, a …

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Missouri school district plans to bring back spanking children with a paddle

2 years, 4 months ago

Missouri school district plans to bring back spanking children with a paddle

Raw Story

A Missouri school district told parents this Tuesday that a new corporal punishment policy approved back in June decision would soon be implemented. According to the Springfield News-Leader, Cassville School District parents are being asked if they would like to opt their child in or out of the program. IN OTHER NEWS: Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she was 'swatted' at …

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Tribal elders recall painful boarding school memories

2 years, 5 months ago

Tribal elders recall painful boarding school memories

Associated Press

ANADARKO, Okla. — Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding schools testified Saturday about the hardships they endured, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced haircuts and painful nicknames. “I still feel that pain,” said 84-year-old Donald Neconie, a former U.S. Marine and member of the Kiowa Tribe who once attended the Riverside Indian School in …

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US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far

2 years, 7 months ago

US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far

Associated Press

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 500 student deaths at the institutions, but officials expect that figure to grow exponentially as research continues. The dark history of Native American boarding schools — where children were forced from …

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Hundreds Of Native Children Died At Government Boarding Schools: U.S. Report

2 years, 7 months ago

Hundreds Of Native Children Died At Government Boarding Schools: U.S. Report

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Hundreds of Native children died at boarding schools the U.S. government forced them to attend from 1819 to 1969 in a violent, racist attempt to assimilate Native people and take their territories, according to an Interior Department report. The report released Wednesday, commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, found that around 19 federal Indian boarding schools accounted …

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US gov’t: At least 53 burial sites at Indigenous boarding schools

2 years, 7 months ago

US gov’t: At least 53 burial sites at Indigenous boarding schools

Al Jazeera

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First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning

2 years, 8 months ago

First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning

Associated Press

As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis’ historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools. “An apology is the best way to start any conversation,” said Roy Callison, a Catholic deacon and Cherokee Nation member helping coordinate the Oklahoma …

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2 students sue Missouri school district over banned books

2 years, 10 months ago

2 students sue Missouri school district over banned books

Associated Press

— Two students have sued a suburban St. Louis school district over its decision to remove several books from school libraries. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri sued the Wentzville School District on Tuesday on behalf of the students, who aren’t named in the lawsuit because they are minors, KWMU-FM reported. The district’s school board voted last month to …

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