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Surveillance in schools refers to specific practices used to observe or monitor students within educational environments. These practices may include security cameras, digital monitoring of school devices, attendance tracking systems, or behavioural observation. Surveillance is typically implemented with the goal of improving safety or maintaining order, but it can also raise questions about privacy, trust, and the balance between safety and autonomy within school communities.

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…