It is now impossible to determine just what proportion of the involved governments actually intended harm to the children. It is certain that many people a century or half century ago wished harm to native people, many still do. The overall intent was to destroy the cultures of the children by any and all means, including violent indoctrination, deliberate destruction of the main food sources of the community, relocation of communities to inappropriate places. No amount of "good teaching" will make up for the atrocity. Actual genocide was intended by some.