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Roxanne Stasyszyn, Yukon News : Saturday, September 15, 2012
WHITEHORSE – Malcolm Dawson remembers August as a time of dread, a time when the soap couldn’t wash the colour off his skin before he had to return to the Whitehorse Baptist Mission school.
“It was something like being in jail. I used to play hooky all the time because all I had in school was trouble. I used to wander around and hide in the alleys,” Dawson, now 70, said in an interview.
“I was just a little guy and they’d tell me I was good for nothing and wouldn’t be able to do anything.”
Dawson also remembers scrubbing himself vigorously with soap and water as a kid.
“I was trying to wash the brown off me,” he said.
But these memories are not enough for him to qualify for claims intended for former students who endured severe physical or sexual abuse.
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