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Records, emails, and notes required or demanded by schools. Documentation includes IEPs, behaviour plans, incident reports, meeting minutes, email correspondence, and assessment reports. Schools simultaneously demand extensive documentation from families whilst controlling what gets recorded in official files, often omitting parent concerns, minimising harm, or characterising events in ways that justify institutional decisions. Effective advocacy requires families to maintain parallel documentation systems to counter institutional narratives and establish evidence for complaints.

You fear the complaint will destroy everything, that the moment you file formal paperwork the teacher who seemed to care will stop returning emails, that the principal who promised to help will suddenly become unreachable, that your child will pay the…