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Yes, what do I want? That’s the point. I was in a kind of incoherent rage at my child being singled out, unfairly treated, the calumny aimed at him, the unprofessionalism of the ‘professionals’, the danger into which he’d walked in a supposedly safe place – and so on……

So I rushed into this action. A blog, a forum, a web site devoted to the problem.  Rushed so quickly I didn’t stop to think – What do I want?

And I didn’t stop to think – Who Gives A Damn?

Well I’ll leave the latter question for later – the answer’s probably ‘No one’, but that doesn’t mean it should be the answer, that doesn’t mean it’s the end of it.

But what do I want?

Well I want an immediate cessation to bad, improper practice and a return (if it is a return) to proper conduct on the part of the officers/teachers/administrators/whatever of these two schools and the Department of Education.

That’s essentially what I want.  People given the responsibility to do what they’re paid for.

Pretty simple, really. Simple and obvious.  Sort of ‘goes without saying’.  I didn’t need to state it. But I have. Just to make sure.

Well I don’t seem to have much to say for someone who reckons he’s got so much on his mind, found so much ‘wrongdoing’.

So what am I on about? I better start by clearing that up.

1.  My son’s school scorned improving safety after my child was knocked down and lost a tooth.

They should not have done that.

2.  The Dept of Education ran an unasked, unprepared, undefined, in camera  ‘investigation’  without my knowledge and came up with – astonishingly – ‘absolution’ for the school – and refused to reply to my communications further.

They should not have done that.

3.   My son’s school kept a daily ‘dossier’ of his unilaterally defined misdeeds without my knowledge or participation and eventually suspended him from the school in a unilateral in camera judgement.

They should not have done that.

4.  My son’s school took a typical child incident and blew it into a major drama, made a disgusting, provocative (to his parents), unprofessional and invalid assessment of the situation and responded with a totally invalid response.

They should not have done that.

5.  My son’s school currently attempts to  cajole and coerce us parents  and psychologically intimidate my son with an improper push for a mandatory school uniform.

They should not do that.

So. Clear enough?  I always tend to use too many words. I don’t write well. I speak even worse.

To try to reduce to the even more succinct:

Both of my child’s schools and the Department of Education has behaved and are behaving improperly and I’ve had a gutful of it.

There you go.

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I want them to know that they are embarrassing and discomfiting my son with their school uniform cant.  That they are harming his emotional and social development.  That they are intruding upon my family’s private affairs and integrity. That they are conducting themselves in a thoroughly invalid manner.

And I want them to know that I will not forgive them for it.