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BC Schools

  • On opposite sides of the same door in BC schools

    On opposite sides of the same door in BC schools

    Families and teachers are describing the same failure from two positions inside it. The system survives by keeping them from recognising each other.

  • Try harder, try different

    Try harder, try different

    On the pedagogy of “people are not supports,” the research it misreads, and what happens when an idea is transplanted into a starved system.

  • Be pleasant so others won’t get upset

    Be pleasant so others won’t get upset

    What a twelve-year mortality study measured, and what it accidentally wrote down: the code of conduct every district hands a mother on her way into the room. You learn it in your hands before you learn it anywhere else. At the table you fold them in your lap, you soften your face into the shape…

  • Too many tongues: how schools turn caregiver testimony into threat

    Too many tongues: how schools turn caregiver testimony into threat

    How schools turn caregiver testimony into threat — and why the monstrous advocate is made by the institution that fears her memory.

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