Before you start feeling that liberal surge of pride that comes with heaping scorn on others, just remember that it was a liberal mindset that provided the justification (one of the nastiest words in the vernacular) for residential schools.
Leftists: "Whhhhoooaaaa! No Way! It had to be racism and religious bigotry!" (no doubt the latter was a factor, but racists wouldn't actually want FN people to get an education, would they? Doubtful)
The exact type of people who think that an 8 yr-old child should be able to talk to a guidance counsellor at school and then inform their parents that they'll be getting a sex change operation are the ones who felt like it was an abomination for kids to grow up in stone-age homes without access to K-12. Rez schools were the only viable option 130 years ago. Setting up thousands of schools all across Canada's vast wilderness was definitely not an option in 1890.
The system wasn't designed as an outlet for sexual predators, that was just a basic human failure that wasn't anticipated. FYI lots of kids were still getting raped by priests in Boston in 1980. You could argue that Boston is one of the most modern cities in the world. MIT and Harvard are there. People in North America didn't consider clergymen to be sexual predators back in 1980, and they didn't in 1890 either, for certain. Society didn't believe white boys in Boston in 1980 when they said that they were being molested. No one in society could have even heard of what was happening in remote rez schools back in 1890.
Rez schools were set up with the best of intentions and they ended up being the worst of all hellholes. The leftist narrative that we hear today is just their typical bullshit.