Orange Shirt Day affords us an opportunity to reflect on and acknowledge what was stolen from Indigenous children in the residential schools: their culture, their community and feeling of connectedness, their joy in life, their innocence, and in so many cases, their future. We all have an obligation to take that opportunity as part of reconciliation, but educators have a particular responsibility because our job must be to foster and support young people in almost exactly the areas in which the residential schools sought to deprive them.
