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Denial of accommodation refers to a situation where a school or other service provider refuses, ignores, delays, or undermines changes needed to remove disability-related barriers. In education, this can include refusing supports, failing to implement an IEP, insisting a student “earn” accommodations, or limiting access because a school says it lacks staff, training, or resources. Denial does not always look like an outright no; it can also appear as endless meetings, partial measures, or conditions that make support impossible to use. In British Columbia, schools have a duty to accommodate students with disabilities up to the point of undue hardship. When that duty is not met, the result may be exclusion, educational harm, and a potential human rights issue. This tag covers both formal refusals and more indirect forms of non-accommodation.

This page addresses punitive discipline and behaviour management practices in BC schools, and specifically their impact on disabled and neurodivergent children, who bear a disproportionate share of their harm. When a school applies a behaviour system to a disabled child without…

When a school fails to accommodate a disabled child, it rarely announces the failure plainly. The accommodation does not arrive; the IEP goal sits unimplemented through term after term; the education assistant’s hours are quietly reduced without consultation; the psychoeducational assessment…

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