Categories
These are the broad areas of focus for this website:
Advocacy and resistance
Advocacy, organising and resistance names the work families and communities do to challenge school harm and build collective power. It includes parent-led advocacy, public pressure, evidence-gathering, storytelling, campaigns, coalition work, and the refusal to let institutional narratives define children’s suffering as normal, inevitable, or deserved.
BC Education System
Institutions, policies, funding, Ministry, districts, public education, unions, school boards.
Child Experience
The internal and external impact of collective punishment and exclusion on children — including fear, shame, dysregulation, and invisibility.
Collective Punishment
Discipline strategies that penalise whole groups for the actions of one or a few, including lost recess, public shaming, and group rewards.
Discipline ideology
The latest findings, academic studies, or reports related to collective punishment, education, and behavioural psychology.
Educational harm
The emotional, cognitive, and academic consequences of exclusion, burnout, unsupported needs, and systemic discrimination in school settings.
Family Experience
Personal stories from families about the impact of collective punishment.
Frameworks and tools
This category includes both the institutional tools commonly used in schools — like PBIS, Zones of Regulation, behaviour charts, and safety plans — and the counter-tools developed by families, advocates, and allies. It explores how frameworks shape power, perception, and participation: whose needs are centred, whose behaviours are corrected, and whose values are embedded in the system. From state-sanctioned protocols to radical alternatives, these are the mechanisms through which control is asserted or challenged — and the blueprints we use to navigate, disrupt, or remake the rules.
Legal and ethical
Includes the laws, policies, complaint routes, records, oversight bodies, and accountability tools families use to challenge exclusion, discrimination, delay, denial of accommodation, and procedural harm in schools.
Neurodivergence
Concepts and lived experiences related to autism, ADHD, sensory processing, masking, executive functioning, and other neurodevelopmental traits.
Schools
School Districts
This site also lists districts across British Columbia and their positions on collective punishment.
School District 39 Vancouver
🟠 The Vancouver School Board has denied having a formal policy of collective punishment. However, their stated approach—to apply identical consequences where students’ “actions and…
Read moreTags
These draw together content on more granular subjects.
Resource Stage
- Getting Started
- Building Relationships & Early Collaboration
- Being Assertive & Negotiation
- Exhausting School-Level Problem-Solving
- District-Level Appeals
- External Escalation & Formal Complaints
- Community Mobilisation & Systemic Reform
