Child abuse is a term this site uses with precision and without apology. The tag marks content examining practices and conditions within BC schools that cross the threshold from inadequate support into genuine harm — recognising that the line between systemic neglect and abuse is one that institutions have every incentive to obscure. Posts under this tag explore how restraint, seclusion, repeated humiliation, deliberate isolation, and the sustained withdrawal of accommodation can constitute abuse when inflicted on children whose distress a school has chosen to manage rather than understand. The tag also encompasses the harm that arrives through institutional failures of supervision: children who are sexually touched, physically targeted, or systematically tormented by peers when the adults responsible for their safety have been withdrawn, understaffed, or simply absent. When a school knows a child is vulnerable, fails to resource the supervision and support that vulnerability requires, and that child is harmed by another student, the school’s negligence is inseparable from the harm itself. The tag further holds space for the slower damage: the cumulative weight of years spent in environments hostile to a child’s neurology, where daily dysregulation, exclusion, and the erosion of selfhood compound into something that cannot honestly be called anything else.