Original sentence: Such schools removed children from their home communities in an attempt to, among other things, assimilate them into the dominant European culture and language: the merits and demerits of that system in a broad sense, such as they were, have latterly been entirely overwhelmed by the issue of the wholly reprehensible abuse of some of its child wards by sexually disordered mission personnel
Edited sentence: Such schools removed children from their home communities in an attempt to, amongst other things, assimilate them into the dominant European culture and language