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Updates on policy shifts, school board decisions, and systemic advocacy related to collective punishment and inclusion in BC schools. Follow key developments affecting neurodivergent students, disability rights, and education reform across districts and provinces.

BC Education System · Legal and Ethical

Protecting the ledger over the learner: operationalising scarcity in BC School Districts
Legal and Ethical

After Moore: why winning didn’t fix public education
BC Education System · Legal and Ethical · Neurodivergence

Starving the future: how underfunding and poor education policy are functionally eugenics
Frameworks and tools · Neurodivergence

25 ways AI can encourage critical thinking and make your classroom more accessible
BC Education System · Legal and Ethical

The promise of continuity when transitioning to a new school
BC Education System · Educational harm · Frameworks and tools

No accidents left to excuse
BC Education System · Educational harm · Family Experience · Legal and Ethical

The Ombudsperson and the war of attrition with systems of escalation
Advocacy and resistance · Educational harm · Family Experience

Incident Ipsum: decoding the bureaucratic poetry of school emails
BC Education System · Legal and Ethical

UIP and the business of education
BC Education System · Educational harm · Family Experience · Legal and Ethical

UIP, the good, the bad, the ugly
Family Experience

When you finally get a “good” IEP
BC Education System · Educational harm

Homework: discrimination after the bell
Educational harm · Family Experience

Despair is there in the room, during the IEP
Advocacy and resistance · BC Education System · Educational harm

Bearing witness to truth
Advocacy and resistance · Family Experience

Coats, care, and control: microaggressions, ableism, and the moral surveillance of mothers
Educational harm · Family Experience

Keeping vigil
Advocacy and resistance · BC Education System · Legal and Ethical

Care and support for children with disabilities within the family
Frameworks and tools · Legal and Ethical

Institutional responses to complaint
Advocacy and resistance · Child Experience · Educational harm · Family Experience · Legal and Ethical

Coerced care, gendered neglect, and the reframing of family collapse
BC Education System · Collective Punishment

The cancellation
BC Education System · Frameworks and tools · Legal and Ethical · Neurodivergence

Fuck your independence dogma
BC Education System · Legal and Ethical

No good news on government K-12 page
Discipline ideology

Safety plans, billion-dollar scripts, and the harm they keep in place
BC Education System · Discipline ideology · Legal and Ethical

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BC Education System · Educational harm · Frameworks and tools

No accidents left to excuse

October 27, 2025
BC Education System · Legal and Ethical

UIP and the business of education

October 23, 2025
Family Experience

When you finally get a “good” IEP

October 22, 2025
BC Education System · Discipline ideology · Educational harm · Frameworks and tools

25 signs that your IEP team is disabling your child

August 10, 2025
Advocacy and resistance · Neurodivergence

Our goals are not the same: ableism in bc public school

August 9, 2025
Advocacy and resistance · Educational harm · Family Experience · Legal and Ethical

Why outspoken mothers face retaliation for advocacy in BC schools

August 7, 2025

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End collective punishment in BC schools

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