institutional walls
Institutional walls are the barriers people encounter when trying to move a complaint, request, or right through a system. The wall may be policy, silence, delay, jurisdictional confusion, circular referral, or a process that absorbs dissent without producing remedy.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…