Advocacy Videos!!

I have a YouTube Channel with advocacy videos I have created of 3 different workshops all in English with CC and American Sign Language.

https://www.youtube.com/@KimBlock-PATH

The goal of providing these videos is to give you information that you can watch on your own time, chunk it up and not have to take in all the information at once, pause the screen to take all the time you need to read, and really make this a self-paced course.

If you have any feedback, please send my way!

More to come in the future, but I am taking a break for right now. 🙂

If Nothing Else…It’s Okay to Take up Space

I cannot tell you the number of times I have had someone who works in government tell me this:

“If things were as bad as you say they are, then we would see more complaints being filed.”

Which is BS. As we all know. There is a long list of reasons why parent(s)/guardians aren’t filing complaints.

The reality of this statement is, in terms of “systems”, if no one complains, it’s like it never happened.

When you file a complaint, your complaint becomes part of the data that the external complaint system collects, and annual reports become public-facing. It also informs the individual staff what is happening in education. This is at the micro level of advocacy. People’s stories do change and inform people working in these systems. Filing complaints creates data. It’s one thing if things happen to a few people, then the system blames the individuals. But complaints about the same issue from a lot people, now people take notice. Now the red flags get raised. Data makes our lived experience undeniable. Complaints filed in external processes have the potential to make micro-level and macro-level impacts.

Just like in court, evidence is required. To create public policy, you also need evidence. You can’t just make vague assertions on what you are seeing in the media or hearing through the grapevine from people. Although, this is often what will trigger people’s inquiries into the subject. Governments/organizations need concrete data. They need lived experiences through their own collection. Secondary data, from someone else, in research terms can be called dirty data, when you are using data that you didn’t collect, you need to “clean it”. They need evidence that is reliable and valid.

There are people reading our complaints. It does inform them. It does provide them with information. Information can change how people think and how they approach situations at work.

You can’t unring a bell.

So, if nothing else…even if your complaint doesn’t lead to the outcome you want, filing alone is advocacy.

The Ombudsperson BC investigation into exclusion is an example of how the volume of complaints triggered action. The survey is open until April 1st.

I have had an interesting conversation with a parent recently and they were weighing the pros and cons of filing a human rights complaint. They really liked the idea of someone just reading their complaint. Anyone. The fact that someone was going to find out what had happened to them.

I have to say, I get it. When I was testifying at my child’s hearing it lasted a full day. I was so excited to testify. I couldn’t wait. I remember thinking if nothing else, and this hearing ends after a couple of days, I have had the opportunity to lay everything out in detail to someone and they have had to LISTEN TO ME. It was literally their job to listen to every word I said. They had to really pay attention and not come up with arguments in their head while they were listening to me. Their job was literally to intensively listen to me. I literally felt like I lost 10o pounds after that testimony day. Someone heard me. AND this person is a tribunal member who makes decisions and will be making more decisions in the future about education cases. I wanted them to know just how bad this stuff is. They asked me before the hearing if another tribunal member could observe my testimony day, as they were onboarding new tribunal members. I was like….ABSOLUTLEY! I felt like, hey…you want to invite all the tribunal members, sure! Bring EVERYONE!!!

Some parents have felt that a settlement meeting brings similar peace. It forces the school district to listen to them. Settlement meetings can last all day if needed. Many school districts deal with parents by just ignoring them. Wrong move school districts. Parents with unmet needs are going to find other ways to get them met and I guarantee you, you aren’t going to like it.

If nothing else….

Your child’s experience will count.

Your experience will count.

It won’t be like it didn’t happen.

It did happen!

And someone is going to read about it, and it will be absorbed into their knowledge and awareness of whatever position of power they are in.

If nothing else….someone is going to hear you.

It’s okay to take up space.

Go Ahead…Piss me off. Good Luck with That.

This blog is about why Speaking Up BC started, why it is still ticking, and why it will ALWAYS be ticking.

100% this website exists because of how my children’s school district and their lawyers have been engaging with me. Why they think their adversarial strategy benefits them, I have no idea. I know they don’t like this website. I actually at one point thought I wanted to just shut everything down and slip away back into my old life. I actually almost deleted Speaking Up BC. And then they did something that ensured that would never happen. That is when I had it confirmed just how dirty this system really is, and for that reason, I am all in. Until my final breath.

When I think about it, they have been funding my advocacy projects and provided me with life experiences that I have been able to turn into knowledge and lived experience to pass along to all of you. Pain into purpose. All of the content of this website is because of them and how they chose to engage with me. Feel free to send them flowers.

If they did the exact opposite of everything they have been doing, I guarantee you, all the complaints I have filed would never have happened. This website would never exist. The HR decisions never would have been. P.A.T.H. would never have been created, and clearly P.A.T.H. needs to exist for a very long time. They have provided me with ample evidence.

Not only do I have decisions, yup 3 decisions, from the BC Human Rights Tribunal, each with its own gems, benefiting parents’ advocacy. (All paid for by the school district, hundreds of thousands of dollars.) But I have learned so much and have become the advocate I am today because of their “training program”. It’s been a world I have been able to learn and study from that I never would have had access to if they decided to be human and resolve things with me, instead of fighting me. They have now become predictable to me, and that is glorious.

I am not the same person I was 5.5 years ago. My emotional regulation skills are now at such a higher level. I have been able to sharpen my skills with all the experience. What they thought would break me, has actually built me. Now I’ll send flowers.

There are parents that are crossing their fingers that the lawyers just keep pissing me off, waiting for more content. More fence testing opportunities.

The birth of this website was at a time when I was pushed to my limits. Each time I think I reach a limit, I find out…actually, I can keep going. And I am growing, and still growing. When all of this started I was an emotional mess. I look back at emails from the beginning, and oh my word. I wonder who is this person who wrote this ridiculousness. Work. Rest. Grow. Repeat.

This website is because I want parents to benefit from everything that I have gone through. I want to give people as much information as possible. I don’t want any parent to feel that lost or desperate for information, not even for 5 min.

This website has grown into quite the beast. I started out having zero people reading my website with a handful of people reading my blogs. But over the years it has been growing. The stats on this website still shock me…and make me giggle. (hee, hee)

My blogs get posted, and depending on the topic, can reach around 1,500 page views of that blog in just 24 hours and the numbers just climb over the next few days. Even on days of no blogging, my stats are high. Over the last 4 years, they are consistently climbing, with almost 100,000 page views. Almost 20,000 thousand people have been accessing this site.

It’s not just parent(s)/guardians contacting me for help. It’s employees, parents advocating in healthcare and community services, and high school STUDENTS asking for help.

So, let me state the obvious. To the school districts and the 4 most commonly used law firms representing the school districts….when you piss off mama bears, and poke them and fight them, these mama bears go searching, and when they do go searching, they find this website and they will find their community. I already know there are parents out there quoting my website content. Save yourselves and your district a lot of taxpayer’s money and stress, and try working with people and not against them. eh?

I had a reporter from CBC in Ontario contact me and she said I am the only parent that she can find in Canada with a website about this kind of education information. I was like…that can’t be true, seriously? And she said yup, the only parent I can find. The sheer volume of blogs I have written creates a lot of search terms that make it easier for people to find me. I don’t know how the algorithms work but there are a TON of people finding me just off of Google searches. I have people all over Canada contacting me.

For parents who want to blog and start sharing their own experiences, whether it be about the medical field or education, any tips and tricks that you learn navigating the system, there is a very good chance you will have an audience who will benefit. I can’t tell you the number of people who have reached out to me and thanked me for my website.

For the people who are interested in elevating their advocacy to a wider audience…

You can do this too! I really encourage people in other provinces to start this kind of information that is specific to your own provincial systems. We are all dealing with similar things and have similar complaint avenues, but they aren’t exactly the same. In Ontario, the Teacher’s College actually gives parents the teacher’s submissions and they have a specific department for the human rights tribunal for education matters.

Websites can cost a couple hundred a year to maintain. You can create them through WordPress. I had zero training and just figured things out as I went along. You can YouTube on how to create websites. Speaking Up BC is certainly not a fancy design. It’s literally just a template on WordPress.

If you start up a website, send me your link. I’ll start up a parent website page with everyone’s site. We can be like a big spiderweb and all link together.

I just caution people to be very thoughtful about what they put on their website and to not name anyone, and to be aware of defamation. Know the difference between allegations (accusations before proven in court/tribunal) vs. facts proven in court/tribunal. But all of those things that you learn along the way, that lived experience. That is gold! Capture that!

You can also start up a YouTube channel for free! Social media pages! Facebook pages/groups!

I have found in the last 5.5 years I have bounced all over the place in terms of my emotions, from times of forgiveness and healing, to dipping back into anger and sheer disappointment in the system and with the people who are choosing to follow along and treat parents in this way.

I remember when I first started the human rights tribunal process their response to the complaint had me running on anger. I was determined to do a hearing but also wondered how I was going to have it in me to pull that off. The good thing about the tribunal process is that it takes years to get to a hearing. You won’t be the same person in those years. You will have opportunities to sharpen your skills. To grow and learn. Not only mentally with learning things but emotionally as a person.

During my process, there have been times when I have benefited from reaching out to counselling services to help emotionally manage everything. Rhodes College has students from their counselling program that you can access Affordable Counselling which was around $25 per hour or even less, when I accessed it years ago.

I now work in a profession where I navigate the human rights tribunal as my career and help people with their human rights issues, full-time. I love it!

I think a big part of my success in navigating these systems has been because I am completely willing to fall flat on my face and push into unknown territory. I just don’t care if I fail. There are always gems of goodness in “failure”. Is it ever really a failure? It’s just a step really. Part of the process of getting really good at something.

So, you know what? Go ahead…piss me off. Good luck with that.

It’s all just gas in my gas tank.

This website will be available forever. I even joked with my husband that I want it put in my will that our children are required to pay for the domain name to keep this going. HA!

One thing I learned through this process is to trust myself. I have more in me than I even realized. I can do hard things. I can learn. I can grow.

I am not the only one.

School districts and their lawyers will always underestimate parent(s)/guardians. We don’t need to underestimate ourselves.

There are lots of us who are navigating these systems and they are turning into fine-tuned advocacy machines. Some are writing books, starting businesses, starting non-profit organizations (BCEdAccess, Dyslexia BC, InspireFASD, ADHD Society) leading DPACs, advocating in the media, and making career changes to enter the education system.

So, you know what? Go ahead… piss us off! Good luck with that.

Evidence of Harm. Effective Advocacy in Education.

Why is collecting evidence of harm so important?

Part of an effective way to advocate for your child is going to be your ability to communicate with the school.

The information that you tell them is going to impact that effectiveness and also trigger certain human rights obligations.

The Duty to Accommodate is established under section 8 of the Human Rights Code of BC.

In order for you to convince the tribunal that your child has experienced discrimination, the first part of the test will be to prove the 3-part discrimination test.

This is from the website of the BC Human Rights Tribunal

Test for Discrimination

“Moore v. BC (Education), 2012 SCC 61. To prove discrimination, a complainant has to prove that:

  1. they have a characteristic protected by the Human Rights Code [Code];
  2. they experienced an adverse impact with respect to an area protected by the Code; and
  3. the protected characteristic was a factor in the adverse impact.

Once a complainant proves these three things, the respondent can defend itself by proving its conduct was justified. If the respondent proves its conduct was justified, then there is no discrimination. If the respondent’s conduct is not justified, discrimination will be found to occur (para. 33).”

In the context of disability, you will need to prove that they have a physical/mental disability that the school was aware of, that they experienced harm, and that this harm was connected to their disability.

We already have it written in a decision that not all negative experiences are discrimination. Their disability must be a FACTOR in the conduct.

X by Y v. Board of Education of School District No. Z, 2024 BCHRT 72
110] ….I accept that these incidents which X relayed to Y were upsetting to X. I appreciate that the interactions may have fed into X’s general feelings of unease at school, but the fact alone that these events may have happened is not enough, in itself, to establish that X’s disability factored into them. Not all negative experiences are discrimination. Even accepting that these incidents occurred, I did not hear evidence that could establish, on a balance of probabilities, that X’s disability was a factor in the conduct of the adults involved in these interactions.

So….. what does this mean as parents?

We need to document the harm.

Here is my blog Documenting the Harm specifically on how to do that.

We need to be able to communicate to the school and connect the dots for them, that what they are doing is creating harm.

As parents, we need to communicate to the school that our child is struggling and this struggle is connected to their disability. This will trigger MEANINGFUL INQUIRY. They must investigate and come up with solutions to try and decrease the impact of harm.

Meaningful Inquiry

[99]           Next, in B v. School District, 2019 BCHRT 170, the evidence supported that the school district provided the child with the recommended supports and accommodations. The Tribunal found that it was “only with hindsight” that it was possible to say that the child could have benefited from more support: para. 81. It dismissed the complaint in part because there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate that the school district reasonably ought to have known that the child required more: para. 98. In contrast here, I have found that the District had sufficient information to trigger some kind of inquiry or response beyond asking the Student how she was doing and, assuming the counsellor did this, advising of available supports.

[100]      In short, I agree with the District that the Parent and Student were obliged to bring forward information relating to accommodation. The Parent did that, when she communicated that the Student had anxiety and trichotillomania and that school was taking a significant toll on her physical and mental health. That information should have been enough to prompt a meaningful inquiry by the school to identify what was triggering the Student’s symptoms and what supports or accommodations may be appropriate to ensure she was able to meaningfully and equitably access her education. The failure to take that step was, in my view, not reasonable. As a result, the disability-related impacts on the Student, arising from conditions in her Language 10 class between April 24 and June 27, 2019, have not been justified and violate s. 8 of the Human Rights Code.

We don’t need to necessarily say overtly, that we are considering filing a human rights complaint. We can communicate in a way that shows them we are taking these issues seriously and one way of doing that is to provide them with evidence of the harm.

It may be through pictures of what has happened or video, but it can also just simply be statements the child has made at home about school or drawings they have done or things they have written down. Feel free to quote your child. Emailing this to the school does create an evidence trail so that if things are not resolved and you do decide to file a human rights complaint, all of these emails will form part of your document disclosure and you can bring them to your settlement meeting.

The respondents (the lawyers defending the school district) are going to make arguments that the school’s actions are justified and that reasonable accommodations were provided.

However, if your child is still experiencing harm, how can they argue that reasonable accommodations were provided? That’s why we need evidence of the harm.

The school district also has the final decision-making power with your child’s education. Parents have a duty to facilitate. Even if we don’t agree with their decision we must not become a barrier to their decision or if in the future we file a human rights complaint, it may be dismissed. Here is the case that created the duty to facilitate.

A and B obo Infant A v. School District C (No. 5), 2018 BCHRT 25

[248]      The School District is not the only party with obligations in the accommodation process. Rather, the parents were obliged, as the Child’s representatives, to work towards facilitating an appropriate accommodation: Central Okanagan School District No. 23 v. Renaud, 1992 CanLII 81 (SCC), [1992] 2 SCR 970. If the School District initiated a reasonable proposal that would, if implemented, accommodate the Child, then the Parents were obliged to facilitate that proposal. Failure to do so is fatal to their complaint of discrimination.

So, if their decision is creating harm, we are going to need evidence of that to show that what they decided isn’t working.

I know this piece of collecting evidence can be really hard for parents. They don’t feel that they “should” have to do this. They feel that this is being too aggressive and they don’t want to upset people at their child’s school. I get it. No one wants to feel that they are in an adversarial relationship with their child’s school. Jumping the shark can be really hard.

When you advocate you can still be pleasantly persistent and communication doesn’t need to be adversarial. However, I haven’t known of any effective advocacy when parents put being viewed as “nice” as their priority, over effective communication.

Here is the Inclusive Education Manual created by Incluison BC for helpful information on how to communicate with your child’s school. Here is Family Support Institute’s Toolkit Resources on education advocacy. And I would also just want to add, that if things get intense…which sometimes they do. Please read my blog on 5 Rules on How to be Untouchable

Document

Communicate

Repeat

And if that doesn’t work….

You have external complaint systems

External Resolution Options in Education

New Human Rights Decision – Denied EA Support – Complaint Accepted!

There is a new decision that was posted on the BC HRT website. All these decisions being posted by the BC HRT are so helpful to parents.

It’s always great to have decisions that give examples of the kinds of human rights complaints that get accepted and the public get a peak into the education system when they read the allegations. So many parents are always wondering….is this a human rights complaint? Well, not getting accommodations by failing to provide an EA is an example.

This decision is an interesting read. I encourage you to read it in full.

The Student (by the parent) v. The School District, 2025 BCHRT 17

This is an anonymization decision but check out the first paragraph.

[1] In April 2022, the Parent made a complaint against the School District on the Student’s behalf. The complaint alleges that the School District discriminated against the Student regarding its services based on the Student’s mental disability. Specifically, the complaint alleges that the School District failed to accommodate the Student by not providing him with an Education Assistant in one of his classes.

So…….

For all you parents struggling to get the appropriate amount of EA support for your child…which in recent years is becoming more and more of a struggle…here you go!

The BC HRT has confirmed that in this case the parent who filed a human rights complaint alleging the school district failed to accommodate their child by not providing him with an Education Assistant in one of his classes is an ACCEPTED human rights complaint which is proceeding through the process.

If you feel your child isn’t getting enough EA support, you have a potential human rights complaint.

For situations that are an emergency, you can apply to have your complaint fast-tracked.

Scroll to page 2 near the bottom. This is the form that you would fill out along with your complaint to fast-track your complaint.

General Application
https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/876/2023/03/form_7_1_print.pdf

If you are filing a family status complaint for yourself, you can also send in a separate complaint just for you. Here is the human rights decision outlining this as an option.
The Parent v. The School District, 2024 BCHRT 113
Here is the summary page.

If you are curious, here is what the complaint form looks like. You will need to be able to answer these questions. Complaint form.

For those of you who would like some help filling it out, you can ask the Human Rights Clinic or contact the people on this page.

You certainly don’t always need to file a human rights complaint to have human rights needs addressed. You can use human rights law in your own advocating. If things are serious, sometimes people will find a lawyer who can address the issues directly with the school.

Also, what is also very interesting about this decision is that school districts clearly do not like being named. So, you know what that means. Something to consider is…..naming them!
Here is my blog on this topic.

Specifically this case:

Get No Anonymization, TRB Decisions = HRT Decision – NOPE!

This tribunal member of this decision felt this situation was distinct from another case that named the school, but we still have decisions that are in support of school districts being identified. In this situation, the tribunal member wanted to err on the side of caution. I can’t blame the HRT for wanting that. It’s hard to predict what is going to happen in the future. If the mother is already creating online publications and has an internet presence, who knows.

It’s a shame school districts are so focused on fighting parents and not choosing the route of peace and resolution. It seems like they are so willing to spend taxpayers’ money on a ridiculous amount of lawyers’ fees instead of spending a ton less money and giving it to a child who experienced harm. The settlement money goes directly to the child, so even if they absolutely hate the parent, it’s not going to the parent. They really do provide the opportunity for people to sharpen their advocacy skills.


Settlement & Mediation Information

Here is some settlement and mediation information.

Fact Sheet from the BC Human Rights Clinic on settlement and mediation

https://bchrc.net/…/FACT-SHEET-Mediations-and…

Guide to Settlement Meetings from the BC HRT (BC Human Rights Tribunal)

https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/law…/guides/settlement-meeting

How to Prepare for Settlement Talks

https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/…/prepare-for-settlement-talks

Mediation policy and mediation process from the BC HRT https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/law-library/policies/mediation/

If there is no settlement resolution, the respondents may decide to file a dismissal application if they feel they have made you a reasonable offer. https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/law…/guides/dismissal-apps/da-7/

Settlement amounts have been noted by the BC HRT in decisions that settlement amounts are increasing. Just because they may apply, doesn’t automatically mean they will be able to force you to accept the amount. Their offer needs to be in the reasonable range of what the tribunal would award you. See this case below.

Bahrami Ghahnavieh v. SolidCAD, A Cansel Company, 2024 BCHRT 226

https://www.canlii.org/…/2024bchrt226/2024bchrt226.html

[33] However, I accept that the trend in Tribunal awards for injury to dignity is upwards…

[38] In the circumstances of the complaint, I find that SolidCAD’s offer of $4000 to Ms. Bahrami Ghahnavieh for injury to dignity is not within the reasonable range of what the Tribunal might order if Ms. Bahrami Ghahnavieh is successful at the hearing on merits. For these reasons, I deny SolidCAD’s application to dismiss the complaint.

The only person that can give you an idea of what would be reasonable based on the context of your complaint would be a lawyer.

But still, like air, I’ll rise…

History is full of challenges and unfairness. It is also full of legends, advocates, activists, heroes, and system disruptors. Relentless fighters for the good.

Let us start off this week by soaking in the words of the poem I Rise by Maya Angelou. This is a video that I have watched many many times.

With so much happening right now, we need each other now even more. We need community. We need collaboration. We need friends. We need support. And so, like air, I’ll rise. We’ll rise.

I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Mayo Angelou

Conscious Systemic Neglect

Many individuals and organizations are reading yet another comprehensive report published by the Office of Representation of Children and Youth, released today January 29th, 2025 at 11 am. In fact, as noted in this report, they have written 18 of these reports in the last 20 years (p. 15).

I have a deep appreciation for the people involved in creating these reports, as they document the underfunded systemic neglect.  

We have so much evidence. Lack of awareness is not the issue.

This report outlines the consequences that people are experiencing by such an underfunded poorly designed system. Society should be shocked and appalled by this report. This system punishes people for being disabled. 

I am struggling to understand why designing a system that harms families and sets them up for failure and financial ruin benefits society as a whole. The system creates years of chronic stress and is traumatizing. Legislating families into poverty and underfunding these systems is a pay now or pay later system. With high costs in other expensive reactive systems (health care, courts) and high human costs. People are sucked into the whirlpool and cannot get out.

“38 percent of caregivers report
needing mental health supports
for themselves and/or members
of their caregiving circle (e.g.,
relatives, siblings, and others living
in the home)” (p. 35)

“79 percent of caregivers reported
they either had to leave their job
or reduce their hours of work
to care for their child with a
disability, or they had to increase
their employment to pay for
the services their child needs,
pushing families into poverty and
impacting caregivers’ future career
development, mental health, and
well-being” (p.35)

Families need systems in place so they can continue to work and provide for their family and other siblings and not be depleted and drained by the system. The emotional strain families are experiencing while navigating and trying to survive through these human-made systems is unnecessary. These systems can change. Designing and maintaining a system that creates the outcomes outlined in this report is not logical, humane, or fair. It is ableist, discriminatory, and oppressive. 

There are so many quotable statements in this report. It is clear that there have been years of inaction. 

“In fact, a four-year review by RCY on the progress
of the Alone and Afraid recommendations, released
in 2024, found little movement by government, with
actions on some of the recommendations even
deteriorating over time.” (p. 16)

The time is NOW to start somewhere.

Thank you RCD, yet again for excellent work in this area. This is advocacy! Shining a light on those pushed into the dark.

Don’t Look Away: Issues Spotlight
Too Many Left Behind: Ensuring Children and Youth with Disabilities Thrive https://rcybc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CYD_Final_Jan29.pdf
January 29th, 2025
Written by the Office of Representative for Children and Youth

New Consent Resolution from the Professional Conduct Unit (TRB), Ministry of Educaiton

Professions have regulatory bodies for a reason.

Filing complaints with regulatory bodies is a way to keep people safe and reduce the risk of harm to others. I want to remind people it’s not just teachers that can have complaints filed against them. But any certificate holder. That means teachers, principals, district staff, and the Superintendent. But not the Secretary-Treasurer. They are not certificate holders.

The Professional Conduct Branch in the Ministry of Education and Child Care (Teacher’s Regulation Branch) has recently released two new decisions.

I am focusing on this one because it involves a principal.

This person thought it would be a good idea to duct tape a child to their chair to “help the Student focus on their work.”

I deeply look forward to the day when educators stop associating sitting still with learning and focus.

Here is the link to the case.

https://teacherregulation.gov.bc.ca/…/MacCORMACK_CRA…

Here is a link to the database. You can read the other case if you are interested.

https://teacherregulation.gov.bc.ca/…/DisciplineOutcome…

They have also posted their statics for Dec.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/…/discipline-outcomes-statistics

They STILL have not released their annual report for 2023-2024.