text: Are you saying that Native parents should have stood behind the Clerics wanton acts of sexual depravity on their children, in the same way that parents of your generation stood behind their children's teachers?
  
  Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but I went to school around the same time as you, and I remember the strap and corporal punishment, and I remember my parents supporting the teacher's right to do these things if a child acted up.
  
  But I don't recall the use of homemade electric chairs on child, such as what happened at St. Anne's residential school, not do I recall being forced to eat my own vomit, or suffering starvation, nor do I recall being the sexual plaything of a cleric.  Perhaps you went through this, but I didn't, so I'm trying to see how the experience in residential school was the same as yours?