How Did Residential Schools Close

     In 1948, both the house of commons and the senate recommended closing residential schools, however it was the church that opposed. Due to the fact that it was social welfare placement, it kept them running.
     By the 1950's it became clear that the assimilation approach was not working. The Aboriginal culture survives despite the effort to destroy it and the devastating effects of residential schools were becoming more widely known to the public. The government eventually acknowledged that removing children from their homes was bad to the individual children, as well as their families. In 1951, the half day/half work system was abandoned.The process of closing residential schools was slow.
     In the 1970's, the Native Indian Brotherhood called for native control of native education, and that was when the government officially began closing down residential schools.
     In 1960, the system closure gave away the Sixties Scoop. The Scoop lasted until the late 1980's, and it was basically Aboriginal children being taken away from their families and put into foster care, or adoption.
     The last residential school however, closed in 1986.