“We’re not expelling any children,
we’re asking a family to leave.”

Here are a few personal invitations to people in case they think they couldn’t make a constructive contribution to the documentary....

Mark Thornton - we have so many questions for you, but we know that you would not be able to answer any of them and you prefer to hide behind whatever human shield is available.  Since your illegal and bullying actions towards our children and our family, you have had a field day haven’t you.  Even the Trustees admitted that by democratically protesting we were apparently “playing into Mark’s hands”, a tacit acknowledgment if ever I heard one of your power in the school and the underhandedness of your methods, turning democratic protest about actual harm done to our children into some fictitious attack on the school and then using the whole school as a shield. Spreading lies about us to deflect from your own illegal actions is wonderfully clever, we admit.  Well done.  Why don’t you come over and tell the camera how you do it?

Michael Lipshulz - we would like to hear why you think you should get away with the harm caused to our daughter by your admitted failure to supervise her whilst she was in the company of the boy who was pissed off with her and who had an axe to make a bush hut with.

Susanne Cole - we would like to ask you questions regarding the contracts we made with you which you failed to uphold, your subsequent failure to stop our child being outrageously bullied by being expelled when you yourself couldn’t control the boys in that class.   An abiding memory I have of you is one young rascal running round and round you with a stick at the beach and you vainly saying “stop, stop”, to no effect.  In fact, by not standing up for the contracts you made with us and with our eldest daughter, we hold you guilty of bullying her yourself.

Sheryl Mace - we would like your comment on how you could say that you ‘couldn’t talk about this now’ while we were being thrown out at the exact time we had contracted to have a meeting with all school entities.  Considering you are on the Management team and in the College of Teachers, your part in that decision now looks suspiciously large, and yet you claimed that your conscience is clear.  Well if it’s so clear, why not come and give everybody your justification for bullying our five year old daughter, whose loved teacher you had been for well over a year by allowing her little life to be suddenly and completely destroyed.  If you are so satisfied with your own behaviour, why hide?  Come and tell everybody!

Heather Peri - we would like you to account for your failure to fulfil your contractual obligations towards our daughter, or follow through on your promise to do so, a failure which was used as an actual reason for denying that the expulsions had really taken place at all.

Any of the Trustees, who we haven’t spoken to yet, who are conspicuous by their absence and yet no less liable or accountable for the illegal actions of the school, especially the apparently very delicate ladies on the Board.  Desmond Burdon, why don’t you come out and defend your position of “I can’t take sides” in the light of your legal duty not to open the school to legal or financial danger”?  People will be so interested in how the “Micky Mouse” school runs with it’s “weasel” of a Manager - all Desmond’s own words.

Any of the parents from our daughter’s class who were content to slander us, needing only the merest invitation from Mark and Susanne, at a school meeting, would be welcome to come and air their views on children asking to be bullied, the necessity for boys to be allowed to assault and harass as part of their normal development, how their children were treated by us etc, how teasing and ridiculing isn’t really bullying at all etc., and of course there is nobody in that class flagging up any problems now, is there?

Any of the other parents who have written insulting and untrue things about us, or any of the parents who have made comments like “that would never have happened to me” (presumably because you’re perfect), etc.,  or who have a point of view that their life/kids/school whatever is more important than anyone else’s or injustice that happens to other peoples’ kids.  Basically anyone who holds the view that “it didn’t happen to me so .....off”. That will make great viewing.

After tomorrow we will be adding up all our invitations to you all, which amounts to quite a lot over the last year, and we will make sure to mention it in the programme.

So your ability to accuse us of being “one-sided” expires tomorrow.  Don’t waste it!

Come on, this may not be the most fun invitation you’ve ever received but it has the advantage of being completely sincere.