Exclusion is economically irrational and the hidden costs of refusing accommodation
End Collective Punishment in BC Schools
BC school districts have engineered a system where refusing accommodation is cheaper than providing it — as long as the cost stays invisible on the family's side of the ledger. The meeting process is not collaboration. It is a cost-shifting mechanism. Districts make minimal, temporary concessions while running out the clock, and administrators get promoted for saying no without political fallout. The expense of that no — lost income, career stagnation, accumulated trauma, dissolved relationships — lands squarely on families, who are then blamed for the mess. The Schools Protection Program entrenches the asymmetry: once a family escalates, districts get free legal defence while families…