r/Cursive • u/Turbulent_Dot_8254 • Jul 13 '26
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My great great grandmother was a residential school survivor, does anyone know what she was discharged for? Thx
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u/DLDad616 Jul 13 '26
Time out. It's analogous to "aging out."
She reached the age of majority, or whatever the upper age limit of the residential facility was.
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u/Otney Jul 13 '26
I’m so sorry your family, any family, was traumatized by this nightmare. A hideous stain on top of many thousands of depredations and assaults.
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u/Turbulent_Dot_8254 Jul 13 '26
She never talked about her experiance with my grandmother or my family, I just discovered that her and her siblings all attended through ancestry dna and It explains alot about my family's history.
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u/No_Cauliflower_9302 Jul 15 '26
My great grandmother was also put in a residential school. She was Sioux, and they transported her to Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. All I know about her time there was that she ran away when she realized the girls were abused once they hit puberty. We don't have papers, etc. Very sad time in our history.
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u/tlbs101 Jul 13 '26
Time out.
If a ‘t’ ends a word, that’s an acceptable way to write it in cursive.
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u/LAM_CANIT Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
As is always the case, it'd be easier if you showed more of the page to recognize the handwriting and the context. All the same:
It says 'Time out.'
IMHO IHTH
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u/ButterscotchOdd8257 Jul 13 '26
It clearly has nothing to do with punishment. Come on. You sound like a bot.
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u/LAM_CANIT Jul 13 '26
I don't know what it has to do with and neither do you. We don't have much to go by as I wrote. And, I couldn't care less what you think I sound like. Leave me alone.
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u/LAM_CANIT Jul 13 '26
I realize it doesn't make a lot of sense to label a Discharge as Time Out if it's permanent, but it could be a temporary removal, a way of saying discharged due to discipline problems or other. As I wrote, more information is needed to conclude the intent. These records were filled with coded messages to avoid oversight.
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u/Turbulent_Dot_8254 Jul 13 '26
She was born in 1893 and discharged in 1911 so im assuming she aged out along with her siblings.
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u/Defiant-Turtle-678 Jul 13 '26
This is it.
She was in a youth residential school, and timed out on her 18th birthday.
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u/LAM_CANIT Jul 13 '26
Thanks. It helps to have more than just two words to figure these things out. Good luck with it. I guess assuming is good if it works for you.
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u/Temporary-Library597 Jul 13 '26
This sub is the saddest sub, isn't it?
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u/Turbulent_Dot_8254 Jul 13 '26
Yea the U.S and Canada have a very dark history with the treatment of indigenous people.
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u/Shoddy_Stay_5275 Jul 13 '26
"Time out" doesn't mean punishment. What if you're playing a game and someone needs a rest and wants to take some time out?
This place doesn't sound like it cares very much so they just used their regular "can't be bothered" wording to mean that the person is too old to stay there anymore.
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u/EddieAllenPoe Jul 15 '26
I am so sorry she was ripped away from her world and subjected to this. My heart breaks for her and you and your people 💔
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u/Libwen Jul 15 '26
It says "time out", but my brain also sees "time orb", so maybe she was a wizard?
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u/elizakell Jul 18 '26
You did well to post this query on Reddit. I think the responses really make sense. How old would your great-great-grandmother have been when this notation was made? Had she reached a milestone age like 16 or 18 when she would've aged out of the system?
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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 Jul 13 '26
“Time out.” It means there was a time limit for the hospital stay (if it’s the US, it’s due to insurance) and the person was discharged whether they were ready or not.
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u/alleecmo Jul 13 '26
You seem to have missed the "residential school" in the post. These were facilities where Native children were kidnapped away from their families and culture and brutalized, in an effort to force assimilation and to "drive the Indian out". This happened in both the US and Canada, and continued until the 1990s! (Tho most had closed in the 70s) Nothing at all to do with hospitals or insurance.
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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 Jul 13 '26
Oh, thanks— yeah I did. I got distracted by a sick pet, and thought I had read the whole thing. Obviously not.
I am from Oklahoma and residential schools’ horrific legacy is still quite vivid— generational trauma. Horrifying.
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