text: Not entirely accurate.  Residential schools were clearly meant to  bring "education" to aboriginal peoples, but part of that goal was also to "educate" them in  European ways and beliefs (aka Christianity).  This had been the goals of missionaries since they first started venturing into the Canadian forests.  
  
  It is beyond dispute that there were atrocities carried out in respect to residential schools.  Some were officially sanctioned (removing kids from families, forcing relocation, rejection of culture) and some, such as abuse by individual staff  were (perhaps) not.
  
  The term "cultural genocide" didn't exist until WW2, so the term could only be used to describe residential schools in a relatively recent analysis of the history.