Kelly Lamrock speaks about his report on May 30, 2024. He denounced the Education Department's practice of partial days as illegal.New Brunswick’s youth and child advocate, Kelly Lamrock, has denounced the province’s practice of reducing school hours for high-needs children without providing more support, calling the practice “illegal.”
The Education Department did not respond to a request for comment by the deadline, but the advocate’s report included correspondence from the province. Lamrock agreed that the law provides authority to remove some students from class, but he said providing no educational alternative is illegal.“To vary a learning environment means that you have to put a child in some kind of learning environment,” he said.