Because inclusion cannot be implemented on goodwill alone. For disabled and neurodivergent students to participate fully in school life, they need access to staffing, services, and accessible environments—none of which come free. When funding falls short, those needs are triaged or deferred. The result is not mere inconvenience: it is discrimination.
In British Columbia, the right to no discrimination in education is protected under both the BC Human Rights Code and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Yet students who require support to access learning are routinely denied that support due to so-called “resource constraints.” These constraints are not neutral; they are the product of political decisions to ration public services, and their effects disproportionately harm children with disabilities.