Article: When behaviour policies collide with real children

When a child’s nervous system meets a system built for compliance, something has to give - and too often, it’s the child.

In schools, behaviour policies are designed to create order, consistency, and fairness. They are built with the intention of helping everyone learn safely and successfully. But within those systems are children whose needs don’t always fit neatly into structured expectations. When a child experiences the world differently - through heightened anxiety, sensory sensitivities, or a deep need to feel understood - the gap between policy and person can become painfully clear.

And in that space, we begin to see a quiet but important question emerge: what happens when the system works, but the child cannot?

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