Room Clears
Room clears occur when a classroom is evacuated because one child is distressed or perceived as unsafe. They can isolate and shame the child, disrupt peers, and convert unmet support needs into a collective punishment dynamic.
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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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A summer reading list for education leaders
The Canary Collective went upstream this week, and the gloves came off. In “Delay, Distract, and Deny”, Wren takes the old public-health parable about pulling bodies from a river and turns it into an indictment: while families stand waist-deep in the current keeping disabled children afloat, almost no one walks up the bank to ask who…
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10 unhinged things I did to try to keep my disabled child in school
For every woman who has stayed up until two in the morning reading the Human Rights Code with a highlighter, looking for the sentence that will save her child. For every mother who has rehearsed her opening in the shower, workshopped her tone in the car, changed her shirt three times, taken half a beta…