Our latest video has now been widely viewed, with the most viewings of all the videos this month.  We have been getting some feedback, especially from abroad.  Here’s a sample from Australia:-

“I'm very sorry to hear about the bullying at school- I can't believe that your family had to leave!! Why not the bullies?”

Well yes, good point!  But that’s all forgotten now because it has been largely achieved that parents at the school are angry with us for being ‘destructive’, conveniently forgetting that we were protesting against an appalling injustice and abuse visited on our children which has made them suffer.

Some parents are moving on and are ‘over us’.  

Perhaps it’s not surprising, after all, management are busy painting us into some kind of mad loonies, and the `Chairman of the Trust even thought we were kicked out because we took a video camera into school.  Duh! Even when it was pointed out to him that we made the video because we were kicked out, he didn’t think the chronology made any difference and said he wasn’t going to read about it.  (He obviously hasn’t read the behavioural procedures either or he would realise that we’ve just been kicked out for not following them whereas in fact we were.)

What all this implies is that, if you are treated like dog doo by the Titirangi Steiner School, you will then be judged on how you react to that treatment as well.  Bad treatment by the school does not, by itself, mean anything.  It doesn’t entitle you to defend yourself,: that will be seen as a terrible, well,....sin really.  It doesn’t even entitle you to any sympathy from anyone, unless presumably you wear a hair shirt and look victimised.  Apparently we would have done a lot better if we’d gone for the “throw yourselves on our mercy” tip, but if there had been any mercy, or any integrity, it just couldn’t have happened.  (Tip - it’s bullying.)

We’re not stupid and we realised that if the school was prepared to treat us like that, then they were not going to suddenly invite us round to tea and cakes because we said “gosh sorry, of course all those boys can beat her up, what were we thinking?”

We reacted like human beings who felt that they and their children were being expelled for being bullied (in our 8 year old’s case) and for complaining about bullying (in our case).  Our other children are just ‘collateral damage” to the school, and they’ve said as much. (That’s collateral to their attack on us, not the other way round.)

So much for being committed to the teacher/pupil relationship and safeguarding the space for the children to incarnate etc., None of that.  Just ‘on yer bike” for the five year old, and , let’s face it, the 2 year old doesn’t really count, does she?  Just because she was registered for nursery......”that’s just a choice that the family made, they can make another....it’s not the same as it would be if it was our children”.

It’s all apparently justified, because we did something really really terrible.  Sheryl Mace’s heart was ‘broken’ even though her conscience was apparently completely “clear”.  That is heart-rending isn’t it.  Poor Sheryl. What on earth can this family have done to have to break her poor heart by making her have to toss our little girl on the rubbish tip with absolutely no question about it?

Well it was... we still have absolutely no idea what it was.  But we will find out.

Anyway, we’re a bit busy now, but we’re not going anywhere.  We’ve just bought a house in the area, which we did because we made a commitment to the school.  So we just need to keep plugging away at convenient moments until we get the hearing that we justly deserve.  We will still aim for being heard by the school and we’d like to remind you that we are seeking contributors, anonymous or not.  But each day we are not getting a hearing there, we feel entirely justified in seeking out other platforms, going progressively further afield.

We understand the incredulity of our Australian contributor, and realise that most sane people, will feel similarly gob-smacked when they realise that this farce has been promulgated by a Steiner School, who pride themselves on their humane and loving approach.  That is a real trust issue!

Expelled for being bullied?  Who on earth will ever believe it?  You couldn’t make it up.

rescue TRSS credibility

RE-INSTATE THE TITIRANGI THREE