The Greater Victoria School District is starting to track how often students with special needs are asked to miss school after parents raised concerns about a lack of inclusion. The school district is looking at why special needs students arrive late, leave early or miss school entirely as well as how frequently they are asked to do so. Being asked to miss school goes against the idea of inclusion, Watters emphasized. "The only reason a child would be asked to miss school is if we're not able to meet their needs and obviously everybody in the school building wants to meet that child's needs." In addition to tracking the number of cases, the school district is advocating at the provincial level for more funding.

Source: CBC News January 08, 2019 22:30 UTC