Some students died at school from diseases such as tuberculosis, adding to parents' reluctance to send their children away to school.
Residential school graduates were often ill-prepared to switch from dormitory life back to traditional lifestyles. As a result of spending so much of their childhoods away from their parents, they often lacked parenting skills too. Many Indians also resented the lack of appreciation of their culture displayed by those who ran the residential schools.
Chooutla School closed in 1969, when Yukon Indian children became fully integrated into public schools.
