A narrative exists in the West that boarding schools -- schools where students live as well as study -- in China's two largest ethnic minority regions exist only to create a "genocide," by denying ethnic minority students their cultures and making them into Han through instruction in China's national language and disallowance of in-school religious practice. This narrative emanates from organizations funded by the US government, which has levelled sanctions against Chinese educational officials as part of the campaign against boarding schools. The schools, however, raise educational levels and inculcate a national identity in students, as other schools do, everywhere in the world. The project is to create a counter-narrative to the claims of genocidal boarding schools, mainly by making use of academic studies, media reports and interviews with students and teachers.