Paddy Delaney’s letter to us yesterday repeated the words “restraining order” that were used by the young lady outside the school recently.  Apparently the adults who are manipulating information at Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School want people to think that the Trespass Notices issued by Mark Thornton on 8 June 2009 and by Isabelle Krauskopf (pictured above) following the school meeting at which slander was fomented by the school Manager, have now morphed into something quite different, something in fact that necessitates application to a judge to procure!

To remind you, here is what the young lady said outside the school, you can read the whole transcript here.

Girl: … Do you, or do you not have a restraining order?

Angel: Of entering the school?

Steve: Yeah.

Girl: Yes.

Angel: A Trespass Order.

Steve: A Trespass Notice.

At the time, we didn’t appreciate the significance of this terminology, thinking that perhaps she had misheard others talking or was guessing about the name of the sanction.  But now we can see what is really going on because the Trustees are circulating the very same lie.

It’s hardly surprising that parents are suspicious of us if Trustees are prepared to put it about that we have been subject to several “restraining orders” which necessitate application to a judge to obtain, instead of a simple Trespass Notice which any Tom, Dick or Mark can issue on a whim (especially if they don’t want people to know that a child was threatened with an axe on school property).

Also, in classic bullying fashion, it projects the bullying onto the bullied person or people and distorts the facts to make it look as if it was all our fault.

As Paddy is or was a lawyer, this misinformation must be deliberate.  That is, he, as a former lawyer, has deliberately “allowed himself” to substitute the words “Restraining order” for “Trespass Notice”, even though he knows perfectly well that the two things are entirely different, and that a restraining order is much more serious and relates to potential harm to people, rather than simply being told to keep off a property because your insistence on democratic behaviour is upsetting to the ruling elite.

We call on Paddy to correct himself immediately and declare that he is aware that we were served with Trespass Notices by the school, and that is all, in a pathetic move to make the axe issue disappear, and also the teacher’s troubling admission that he had left our daughter unsupervised with the boy who was angry with her in the bush!

What it has done, on the contrary, is to ensure that many many more people have and will continue to hear about this illegal and abusive action, perpetrated by Mark Thornton, or at least allegedly without Trust knowledge (as the liable party).

If he will not do this, then that is simply further evidence of the dishonesty and perfidy of the school, that seems to infect people, and that they are telling such vicious lies about us to children, ridicules those very children and insults their spirit and their intelligence.  

Luckily children are not as stupid as some people at the school seem to think they are as I was reminded when I received a cheery wave from one of them recently when we happened to pass each other in the course of daily life.

We have sent this to Paddy, and await his response.......

“Paddy,

please correct your statement that we have received "restraining orders".  It is demonstrably untrue - just have a look below....

You obviously know the difference between the two perfectly well as well as the fact that a restraining order is very serious matter and has to be obtained from a judge.

FYI we are making this request public.”