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testFor testthe testLove testof testGod: testBrother Burke recalls that he had more than one confrontation with the then-Principal of St John’s, Brother Paul Brooks on the subject of boarders.  Once the Boarding House complex was completed Brother Brooks was keen to fill it.  Brother Burke, on the other hand, maintained that simply to bring in the greatest number of Aboriginal boarders, without hand picking them, could be more of a disadvantage than an advantage.

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testBrother testBurke test test.. testknew testthat randomly to dump a concentration of Aboriginal boys from a mixture of different ‘countries’, different languages and different skin groups together would be to ask for trouble. P330 

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testEspecially testwhen testthe testother testoption, testthe chosen path by the Sacred Heart of Jesus’s higher-ups was:

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testopen-slather testwith testa testban teston testcultural awareness. 

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testThinking testbeing: test testAboriginal testculture test- it’s not real culture.  This is Big-picture assimilation stuff - we’re not here to tip-toe around. 

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testBetween testthe testabove testoptions, testi testwonder if common-sense prevailed …  ? 

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testFor testthe testLove testof testGod: test And so, when he (Burke) was overruled, it turned out. Not only did the students often turn to fighting each other, but their presence in large numbers often deterred significant numbers of non-Indigenous Catholic students from choosing to go to St John’s. 

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testBrother testBurke testrecalls testthat testat testone stage, in order to minimise the vandalism and destruction being caused to the school buildings (as opposed to the boarding houses) a metal fence was erected around the boarding house with spear tipped railings.

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testThe teststudents testsaw testthese testas testbeing ideal weapons and ripped them off the fence to use them as such.

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of MSC’s crusading social-experiment.  Effects that resulted from a deliberate course of action -  despite frank warnings not to do it that way.

It was fairly common during this period that the boarding houses themselves were routinely vandalised – and the turnover in boarding house supervisors was unsurprisingly high.

Others who have worked with Indigenous students have reinforced Brother Burke’s view that they should be handpicked to optimise the value of the education they receive both for their own sakes as individuals and for the sake of their home communities. P331

I’d like to know how handy that hand-picking process was, but Brother Burke was right in that it was a disaster waiting to happen … not waiting, actually

Also: Not to forget the sakes of those who inevitably ended up as collateral-damage-victims from these violent, out-of-control, laxly supervised social-experiment kids.  The ripple-out effect.  But we do forget them.