They would use the backyard of the Residential school as a makeshift graveyard, which was filled to the brim because of common colds that led to death. The children were forced to care for themselves when they were sick. Most of the time those children died.
These schools were not eradicated until 1996. That is not too long ago. These schools will effect our Aboriginal people forever, until we do something to stop it. Though people that have actually been to Residential schools are slowing disappearing, they have had children, they had no idea how to parent their children, because of the childhood they had. No one cared for them, so they do not know how to care for others. Most likely, their children won't be able to parent properly. This will effect their children, and their children's children and so on. Residential schools have imprinted a scar on Aboriginal people, but they have definitely not beat the Aboriginal out of them.