Published: October 31, 2018
If you think it’s important having Aboriginal people in film and television, imagine how important it is having them in our schools
If you ask our “special envoy” what the biggest issue facing Aboriginal peoples is today, he will tell you it’s our attendance in school. In his opinion, every Indigenous student must be attending school every day or the “gap” in all other areas will never be “closed”. But is attendance really the issue? Or is it merely a symptom of something much bigger?
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