I think it depends on where and what time frame. I have worked with many natives that made it through residential schools and if even half the stories are true there was a big problem.I am not making excuses for anybody , I just think that the sexual abuse wasn’t as widespread as is being inferred and I think the definition of abuse has been abused in the context of residential schools . I sat in on some of the hearings during the Nisga negotiations and those native lawyers were all products of the residential school system . And they did a ok .