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Symbolic inclusion without material support. Schools announce commitments to accessibility, adopt progressive language, and create policies affirming inclusion whilst continuing to exclude disabled students through inadequate resources, untrained staff, hostile environments, and accommodation denial. Performative accessibility functions as institutional branding, allowing schools to claim progressive values whilst avoiding the resource redistribution, structural change, and accountability mechanisms that would actualise those commitments.

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