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Withheld support
Punitive control
Erasure and disbelief
Surveillance and coercion
Structural denial
Blame and shame
Trauma and exclusion

Blame and shame

Emotional labour
Fight Flight Fawn Freeze
Maternal rage
Parent burnout
You’re too intense
Token economy

Erasure and disbelief

Disgust
Exceptionalism
Gaslighting
Goalpost shifting
Institutional betrayal
Lip service
Masking
Performative accessibility

Punitive control

Behaviour chart
Fear-based compliance
Group punishment
Punishing the whole class
Rewards
Sticker chart
Token economy

Structural denial

Education as rationed resource
Information asymmetry
Risk management
Scarcity logic

Surveillance and coercion

Coercive control
Documentation burden
Parent as procedural proxy
Shadow procedures
Surveillance culture

Trauma and exclusion

Classroom exclusion
Dysregulation
Emotional collapse
PTSD
Restraint and isolation
School trauma
Vicarious trauma

Withheld support

Deferral
Gatekeeping
Independence as Dogma
Loss of privileges
Rationing care
Support as reward
Withholding recess

End collective punishment in BC schools

No child should be punished for another’s behaviour. Children know from a very young age that this is wrong.

We call on the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care to end collective punishment in BC Schools.

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