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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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…