Letter to the Editor - Shocking issues in northern schools

This is the 21st century and hard to believe that atrocities hapening in our Northern schools. I thought we were past the residential school era only to find that the schools are nothing more than modern day residential schools. Shocking incidents such as the school in an isolated Northern Alberta community that opened the school for 23 school days out of a year.
There is talk in another school about how teachers have students on-line all day playing games on the computers. Other moccasin telegraph stories in our Northern communities include teachers leaving students unattended during classtime or at recess to run home to their teacherages and attend to their personal matters.
I had a confrontation with a teacher in another community who said, "why should I bust my ass teaching these kids when they are never going to leave the community anyway." How many other teachers have this mind-set? And yet these very teachers have the nerve to blam our kids saying they have learning problems.
These non-Native teachers are relying on the ignorance and passivity of Native parents to stay quiet. Not that I blame Aboriginal parents considering our horrific history with the school system however every effort should be made by the school districts that have a high Aboriginal enrollment to hire Aboriginal teachers and administrators. One Aboriginal teacher claims to have been harassed, tormented, and run off the non-Native staff when she tried to bring similar issues to administration in one of the Northland schools in the northeast area.
Aboriginal educators have a direct investment in Aboriginal students. One Aboriginal teacher claims she applied to Northland School Division four times and has had four rejection letters. So who is rejecting Aboriginal teachers is it the Principal, Central office staff who screen out Aboriginal teacher applications or local school boards?