Not sure if "misguided" is how I'd characterize a policy of deliberate cultural genocide.
I believe the prevailing idea of the time was that white colonialism had arrived and wasn't going anywhere, so these people had to adapt to the new culture or perish. The schools were intended to facilitate that adaptation. It didn't work out so well, but I don't think the original intention was evil beyond the inherent evil of colonialism, which we are generally still advancing and exploiting and enjoying. It's still not going anywhere, even among "decolonialists."
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