Three and a Half Years
Thanks to the help we received from the Human Rights Commission, and following that, from the Director of the Human Rights Tribunal, we have finally...
Mediated
We are now able to publish this agreed statement.
Our Human Rights Act complaint against Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School has now been resolved by...
Old Habits
Following due process is certainly a discipline requiring patience, which over the course of the last three years has become a habit of necessity for...
Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School agrees to mediate through the Human Rights Commission
“a safe, peaceful and natural learning haven"
We heard back a week ago from the offices of the Director of the Human Rights Tribunal with...
Further invitation to mediate, this time from the Director of the Human Rights Tribunal.
In November 2009 The International Forum for Waldorf/Steiner Schools, formerly known as the Hague Circle, ratified a document which it described as a:
What does 'natural' mean?
Definition
Main Entry: me·di·a·tion
Pronunciation: \ˌmē-dē-ˈā-shən\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
: the act or process of...
What isn’t Mediation?
Definition
Main Entry: me·di·a·tion
Pronunciation: \ˌmē-dē-ˈā-shən\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
: the act or process of...
How Not to Make a Documentary!
In 2009 the Law Commission of New Zealand recommended several much needed reforms to protect the welfare of children at private schools. Although the...
The Power of Video
Who are the Titirangi Three?2011 - Rudolf Steiner is 150 Years Old
At 17.50 on Saturday Nov 11th 2010, as Parliament sat in urgency, Education...
So why were our children really expelled?
93% of parents favour information before expulsion in private schools.
The results of our survey aren’t really that surprising, of course...
Double Take!
Oops! Trustee’s wife shows evidence of brainwashing!
Photo courtesy of Greg du Toit
Here is some interesting evidence of the power...
Oops
Private Steiner school lies to prospective parents claiming “vindication” of illegal expulsions
It has come to our attention via multiple...
“I really can’t talk about this now” Sheryl Mace
“I really can’t talk about this now”Sheryl Mace,Teacher and Manager of the Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School,during the expulsions
This is just...
The views of a Movement?
“90% of parents thought Mark Thornton handled it badly”Sean Gribben - Chairman of the Board
Talking of statistics, that’s a pretty shocking...
Private School Survey 2010
There is now a survey online designed to canvass the opinions of parent’s and student’s knowledge of the laws relating to private schools. This is a...
Yet More Lies from the School
Well, Paddy Delaney (pictured above with Heather Peri) wrote back to us as follows:
Hi Steve & Angel
“You are perfectly correct it was not...
Last chance to have your say
“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...
More Lies from the School
Paddy Delaney’s letter to us yesterday repeated the words “restraining order” that were used by the young lady outside the school recently. Apparently...
Creative Writing by Paddy Delaney
In our last posting we asked Paddy Delaney, Trustee and co-founder of Realstew, for information in response to our becoming aware of comments that he...
Liability? What liability?
Heather Roy, Minister for Special Education said on the 31st of May 2010 at a speech to the Independent Schools of New Zealand Board Chairs' Seminar,
Big Bullies - Transcript of Alleged Bad Treatment of a Child
The whole school has now been officially invited to contribute to the documentary, now in production
AT LAST! Some spirit from the Steiner...
The Part of the College of Teachers
The above letter was written by Our Eldest Child to Susanne Cole, when she found that her stuff had been interfered with, just shortly after her efforts...
Documentary Delay
Apologies.....there has been a slight delay in us posting because of recent developments.
I guess that’s one facet of it being a documentary website...
What is a Documentary Website?
From this point on we are going to start publishing our Documentary process as it occurs. Why?
Because we need an online resource for some of the...
“The real story here is about two thugs” Richard Lee
Definition
Main Entry: thug
Pronunciation: ˈthəg
Function: noun
Etymology: Hindi & Urdu ṭhag, literally, thief
Date: 1810
Harsh Lessons indeed - The Aucklander Article
As today’s article in the Aucklander says, we have now received information about what the Government is planning to do, and more importantly as it turns...
What is Mediation?
Definition
Main Entry: me·di·a·tion
Pronunciation: \ˌmē-dē-ˈā-shən\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
: the act or process of...
One Year On
Today marks the one year anniversary of this school’s disgusting and damaging response to very real concerns about real bullying that our child suffered...
Selfishness
Some thoughts on having talked with people outside the Advent Fair on Sunday.
Parents of the school sometimes have informed us that we ‘lost’...
Answers
Yesterday we visited the school, to inform those coming cold to the High School meeting about some of the ugly things that have happened on that pretty...
Natural Justice
Gosh, it looks like this is bigger news than we thought!
What a relief to know that he’s got his sights on making sure criminal cowboys can no...
We the undersigned.....
We have been prompted to post by a series of texts with a parent from the school, who has obviously, now that some time has gone by, time in which we...
Real Men Protest!
Yesterday Steve went to demonstrate outside the school. This should not have come as a surprise to anybody as we have pledged to inform people about...
Sign the Petition!
Please sign our online petition asking for the re-instatement of our children and a public acknowledgement that the school’s behaviour has been inhumane,...
Bases and conditions
We’ve been thinking about what was written in the letter from the Trust yesterday and have realised what was meant by ‘no basis under which’ we will...
Preparedness - a good basis
Unfortunately, we’ve just received an email from Sean Gribben of the Trust. Apparently there is “no basis under which” they would be prepared to re-instate...
Trust Issues
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...
The Real Deal
Our latest video is now online. You can view it by clicking either on the image above or here.
Even though we are apparently the only family to...
Truth and Safety
On Tuesday morning two parcels arrived with the girls’ names on them. Inside were some of the items that had been left at the school. Because we were...
Tired Old Projections
What does it mean to project? It means to throw. Psychologically it means to throw out or away, to attribute to another qualities that are really in...
We're Back!
Gosh it’s interesting what happens when you try and negotiate with the Steiner School, they leave you hanging for days and then come back with a sweet...
Retractions and Ethical Marketing Assistance
We retract any intention to destroy the Steiner School and stand laughing in its ashes. Such savage sentiments came through the provocation of personal...
An Open Invitation
Wow! 40 visits since yesterday.....that’s something of a record. We can only imagine the scenes in several houses yesterday as people realised that...
Put Up or Shut Up! [Updated x2]
Today Sue Russell of the Steiner Federation will meet with two members of staff at the Titirangi Steiner School. They will discuss the matters recorded...
Parent Information
5,455 pages viewed, 28,745 hits.
Before we get around to making another video to explore what has happened to us at the Titirangi Steiner School,...
Hypocrisy ?
"To claim any sort of ‘victimisation’ without acknowledging your own responsibility is not an adult position"
Yes, of course someone quoted this...
A Long River
There have now been 22,899 hits. 4,376 pages have been viewed in 8 countries.
We were yesterday congratulated by a local ex-Steiner parent on providing...
Sharing
We have put up our second video. Please go and have a watch of it, then press the ‘share’ button, and send it to a few people. Help us to inform the...
Legalities and Oppresive Regimes
In our research yesterday we came across this interesting paper from the Law Commission about the lawfulness of uncleared video footage in New Zealand;...
Who is looking at this website?
As of today at 11.05 am we can report that this website has received 7505 hits from within New Zealand! That’s quite a lot considering it has been live...