Exclusion
Exclusion refers to the removal or effective removal of a child from meaningful access to school. It includes formal discipline, informal removals, partial days, isolation, unsafe environments, inaccessible programming, and conditions that make attendance untenable.
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The barn, not the mother
A version of you existed before all this, and she would have been horrified. She would have watched you zip up that backpack, drive them to school, walk them to the door, and she would have known what you were doing: handing your child directly to the building that will hurt them today. Maybe the…
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ParentGuardianExcuse: no excuse for exclusion in BC schools
The reason column in my son’s permanent record is mostly blank. When a reason survives, it’s ParentGuardianExcuse.
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BC schools are failing disabled students: an absence analysis
This analysis is based on a provincial FOI request to the BC Ministry of Education, file ECC-2025-52461, which was shared recently, bc BCEdAccess. The data covers absence rates, absence reasons, enrolment, and mid-year exits for BC public school students, broken down by inclusive education designation, across the 2022/23 and 2023/24 school years. This analysis focuses on…