"They [The Boarding schools] still are a critical factor in why some American Indian parents find it difficult to communicate with public school system administrators and teachers – and even more difficult to trust them."
That was a quote from the Brainwashing and Boarding schools website, and in Sound and Fury the parents also found it frustrating and difficult speaking to people that were fully in support of having kids only learn speaking not sign. (Speaking school vs sign school seems to be a similar debate to the public school vs boarding school debate.) The Indian Boarding School website also declares that teachers should "have an awareness of past events" in order to teach their Indian students, and I think that deaf parents would really like it if their child was in a speaking school that also focused on having an awareness of their deaf culture.
The attempt by Pratt to "kill the Indian, not the man" seems much harsher than the pressure to get a cochlear implant. The students were taken away from their families and friends, so they felt a much stronger separation from their culture, whereas especially in Heather's case, if she were to get the cochlear implant she would still be surrounded by her deaf parents and a part of deaf culture. "To disobey meant swift and harsh punishment" in the boarding schools. This is obviously much more harsh than the pressure to get a cochlear implant. But the main difference is that not being Indian was actually forced upon the students attending the boarding schools, but getting a cochlear implant is an option and it is certainly not forced upon deaf children (unless they have eager grandparents).
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