The union representing B.C. teachers said it is asking for school districts across the province to fly flags at half-mast next week in honour of the 215 Indigenous children found dead on the grounds of a Kamloops residential school.
The discovery of the bodies was confirmed Thursday (May 27) by the Tk91裸聊视频檈ml煤ps te Secwe虂pemc First Nation. The Kamloops Indian Residential School operated from the late 1800s until 1977 and the Tk91裸聊视频檈mlups te Secw茅pemc said there were as many as 500 children enrolled at the school at one time. The children91裸聊视频檚 remains were found by using ground penetrating radar.
The B.C. Teachers91裸聊视频� Federation said it will be working with its local unions to organize orange shirt walk-ins next week in honour of the children. is officially held in September each year to commemorate the experience Indigenous peoples endured in residential schools, to honour the healing of survivors and their families and to continue to work towards reconciliation.
National Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419.
We will be working with our locals across BC next week to organize orange shirt walk-ins to honour the 215 dead children found at the Kamloops Residential School. We are also asking school districts to lower all flags to half-mast.
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