We retract any intention to destroy the Steiner School and stand laughing in its ashes.  Such savage sentiments came through the provocation of personal slander following on from institutional bullying, after appalling management decisions including outright denial of serious behavioural problems at the school.

We are capable of self analysis and acknowledge that we should continue to rise above such petty habits, as we have shown ourselves capable of throughout this sorry affair, until this weekend.

The outrageous fabrications, the back-stabbing, and the use of school premises for it did move our minds, and we regret being subject to our passions instead of retaining our habitual measured, even, factually and chronologically correct response to events.

We are aware that due to time-massagement, most people at the school still think that we were kicked out because we brought a camera in to school.    Whilst we have looked in vain for any mention of not being allowed to bring a camera into school, that is not the point.  

The point is that that is not what happened.  The fact that people believe it to be so, therefore, is suspect.  The school is aware of the true chronology as is anyone who has bothered to follow it through the correspondence.  The fact that the school does not immediately make the whole community aware of it, is further suspect.

We must now move on from recording these events.  This account is nearly complete and unless the school admits its mistakes, any further action will need to be accomplished through legal channels.  We are, of course, available to answer any questions and may post additional background material, but the regular posting serves no purpose in an environment where people have no desire to be appraised of the facts.

We are aware that such a seemingly judgemental group of people are again likely only to see our reaction, not what caused it, and that will eclipse all the sane, well-informed, well-intentioned time-consuming WORK we did to try and address the problems through the channels laid down in the behaviour policy; the one which got reviewed through our efforts, Yes, the one we are supposed to have a “fundamental disagreement with”.

All we did is prove it wasn't working, since the result was that the school showed Zero Tolerance of us, while we were continuing to try and be socially inclusive by following the policy which they were not implementing.

But that could only happen because, as we have learned, the thing we thought was at the school, does not appear to be there.  Community does not behave like that, except when it is sick.  

We could not be more sorry that we had no other way to protect our children than through this web-site.  We are sorry that we felt so provoked that in the end we came to insult and threaten, sinking to the level of our ‘detractors’.

We are sorry too that we believed that the school really was open as they said, to sensitive children, and for the harm that has been done to our little girls as a result.  We do believe that the school should be MUCH more upfront about these things, and the hidden agenda that such sensitive children will need to 'toughen up' to survive there, as all the other mothers of girls in that class have said they desire, although there really aren’t very many of them left. 

We hope the school will one day come to see that the fact that we felt so provoked at all, is a failure of our family by a school who’s reason to exist is supposed to be love and respect for children.

But even if the majority of those at the Titirangi Steiner School never do come to see that, we are leaving this here until such time as we believe that the situation has changed, so that others may.