Wesakechak

I was enlightened during a conversation with someone who is Aboriginal and works in a University on the problems facing Aboriginal youth in Canada with respect to the education system. A large barrier is the ability of Aboriginal youth to attend traditional schools because the youth are often mobile and move from household to household, which makes it difficult to have a smooth learning process. Perhaps if education can be taken to the Aboriginal student instead of the other way around, then it will be possible to give these youth equal educational footing with non-aboriginal students.

I first saw this news item from my good friend Darren Cannell over at Teaching and Developing Online (see entry entitled Cameco gives $2M to virtual school).  It was also in my RSS reader courtesy of Virtual School News (see entry entitled Cameco gives $2M to virtual school). Finally, another colleague, Chantal in Regina, e-mailed me the news item:

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The thing that I like most about this donation is that it was given to an online program that focuses upon Canada’s aboriginal population. For those of my readers not familiar with Canadian history, while we did not treat our native population quite as poorly as the United States treated their Native Americans, Canadian aboriginals were treated quite bad. Many of the problems that exist in the aboriginal community today are a directly result of government mistreatment and misguided policies.

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