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Educational reformers thought of the local school as a substitute  for the family because children being educated were in school more  than they were at home. Discipline staâ¦rts in the home, but if a  child is not getting it at home, the next place would be in the  school setting.
Living conditions at the residential schools. The purpose of the residential schools was to eliminate all aspects of Aboriginal culture. Students had their hair cut short, they were dressed in uniforms, and their days were strictly regimented by timetables.Boys and girls were kept separate, and even siblings rarely interacted, further weakening family ties.n the 1880s, in conjunction with other federal assimilation policies, the government began to establish residential schools across Canada. Authorities would frequently take children to schools far from their home communities, part of a strategy to alienate them from their families and familiar surroundings.