Liability in Education
One aspect of education that was really hard for me to swallow and accept is the concept of liability and education operating as a business. They almost broke my heart over this. They make a lot of decisions based on liability. It’s depressing and sad really. Like seriously….the kids aren’t the priority?? (I was so […]
HR Decisions in Year 2025
Here is a list of the BC human rights decisions related to students and education (K-12) that were posted publicly in the year of 2025. Only 2 decisions show parents/caregivers who had legal counsel, the rest were self-representing parents. These decisions are important as we learn how the tribunal will make decisions about similar issues […]
Systemic Impacts of Scarcity in Education
I’d like to bring up the subject of scarcity and the concept of applying the impacts of limited resources in the education system. It could be physical, social, emotional, or mental scarcity. Limited resources change how people interact and behave at the most primal survival levels. There are already many scholar reports on how scarcity […]
What Does Ableism Look Like in Schools? It Looks Like This!
When a teacher daily allows a student with a learning disability to fail their class, but does not even lift a finger to inform the case manager or parent, that is ableism and its discrimination. Disabled children failing, falling behind and being excluded without accommodations have become the normality of the education system. It’s so […]
Trying to Collaborate in Good Faith
Trying to collaborate in good faith and discuss “reasonable accommodations” can be the real murky (stressful) part of the accommodation process that has the most potential for disaster. This is where we are at our most vulnerable. Here is why. (Please read every single word of the next paragraph. Twice if necessary.) As part of […]
Why Can’t we Just Sue the Government?
Good question! Many parent(s)/guardians are asking this question. What they are experiencing in the education system is mass systemic discrimination and they are wondering how in the world is this allowed to happen?? Doesn’t the Charter protect our rights? I hope this blog is used as a launching pad for discussion. I encourage people to […]
“this family needed help beyond what I’m trained for” (para 58)
This was a statement by made by the Acting VP in a human rights decision. X by Y v. Board of Education of School District No. Z, 2024 BCHRT 72 [58] Y asked the Acting VP in cross examination how the break from the classroom would have been restorative for X had it […]
Daycare Termination and Disability
RE: New Human Rights Case linked to daycare and termination of daycare services due to a perceived disability. Mother obo Child v. Daycare, 2024 BCHRT 251 Since we all have most likely struggled with daycare issues at some point, I am posting this case. It is a very interesting case. A situation that parents find […]
Let’s Talk about Hindsight!
How is hindsight an important issue to understand in education? Well, if anyone is going to claim that their child is experiencing discrimination and go through the human rights tribunal process, a defence the school could use is “hindsight” . Student by Parent v. School District BCHRT 237[99] Next, in B v. School District, 2019 […]
Barriers! Barriers! Barriers!
When we discuss equity, accessibility the human rights code and accessibility legislation it is ALLLL about removing barriers. Therefore when we advocate for our kids, any advocacy grounded in rights-based advocacy is going to focus on barriers. 1. Human Rights Code In X by Y v. Board of Education of School District No. Z, 2024 BCHRT 72 […]
