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Private School Rights
What your child keeps, and loses

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Most of the machinery that protects a disabled student in Ontario is built into the public system.
A private school is not a school board.

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So the identification disappears, the written plan disappears, the committee disappears, the appeal disappears.

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The Human Rights Code is the protection that follows your child.
That is a protection and it matters, but it works differently, and slowly.
Human Rights Code

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Getting in is not the risk. Staying is.
A contract may provide for ending the placement
Another private school is not automatically required to take your child instead

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Seven questions to ask, and to get answered in writing
Ask for the answers by email rather than in a meeting.

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Read the guide
www.endthewaitontario.com/education/private-school-rights
Sources: Education Act; Human Rights Code.
Verified 2026-10-23