Those who wanted to pursue higher education had an easier time than most of the non-natives, but there wasn't as much interest in getting to that point. This seems to be more the real issue to me: getting the kids to stay in school and go on to university or even just to trade school, and its not a situation unique to natives, although (speaking from my limited experience and anecdotal evidence related to me across northern Alberta) it seems to hit them harder. And with some of the Alberta bands, the kids who had "treaty status" had less impetus to drive them to further education because of the royalty payouts from the energy industry, which is within their rights, but short-sighted, because those royalties won't last forever
In my opinion thats the problem too, The majority of natives i know would rather drop out and do **** all. They know the mining industry is going to give them courses and training to work in the industry.(Training most natives think is better than a school education) They would rather wait for the mining industry to give them jobs. In my opinion alot of the problems with natives is at the household, When your raised to have no responsibility, your going to fail.... Most arent properly raised by their parents. 85% of natives feel hat they are entitled to something and i noticed in my opinion that negativily affects their motiviation and ambition.
So in the end when you know your entitled to a job because your native, i can see there isnt much reason to go to school or let alone stay in school. But hey thats ok, im glad ive had to work for everything in my life and im not suffering from some foolish sense of entitlement. That and my family doesnt marry 2nd cousins, which might help also.
If their not helping themselves why should we ? Lets spend this money on immigrants that come here to actually be something for the worth of our contry!!
Im tired of listening to Natives who complain about having to work under a white person. They never stop to think that mabye that white person went to school and became qualified to do the job hes there to do.
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