No Discrimination
No discrimination is not a motto or aspiration but a foundational human right protected under the law—a right that guarantees students access to education free from bias, exclusion, or unequal treatment based on disability, race, gender, religion, or any protected characteristic.
In practice, it means schools must identify and remove barriers—not only physical or logistical ones, but also attitudinal, procedural, and systemic—because harm often arrives through silence, through neutrality that defaults to dominance, through policies that appear fair but function inequitably.
The right to no discrimination includes the right to belong, the right to be supported, the right to speak and be believed, and the right to learn without being punished for who you are; and when this right is breached, it is not simply a failure of kindness—it is a violation of justice.
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Justice and dignity too expensive for BC NDP
In 2018, experts told BC exactly how to fix special education funding. The government has spent five years “consulting” instead. Meanwhile, your child sits in hallways. The 192% problem nobody wants to fund Between 2015 and 2024, autism designations in BC schools exploded by 192%. Total student enrolment? Up just 11.6%. The province knows this. They…
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When delay becomes policy: British Columbia’s strategic abandonment of disabled students
In 2018, an independent panel reviewed how British Columbia funds kindergarten through grade twelve education and recommended a prevalence model for special education funding, a shift that would allocate resources based on statistical prevalence of disability within the general student population rather than on individual diagnostic designation. The proposal threatened to expose what the existing system carefully…
