I have decided to present a question to the public in relation to the process used to assess matters for investigation.
We have made formal allegations of bias, victimisation, bullying and misconduct against the leader of the Selective Schools Unit originally in relation to incidents in the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 and then subsequently in relation to incidents in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
We present hereunder details of the documents that we received that triggered the original complaint in 2002.
1. Year 2000 OC test results for eldest son challenged.
- So called 'certified true and accurate copies of test results forwarded by the DET, at our request, had inconsistancies and errors. Documents produced by the Selective Schools Unit are incomplete and/or missing. Formal complaints made against Leader of the Selective schools Unit. Allegations not investigated.
2. Year 2001 OC test results for eldest daughter challenged.
- Data file and documents produced under FOI show evidence of bias, manipulation and tampering. Formal complaints made against Leader of Selective Schools Unit. Allegations not investigated.
3. Year 2002 Selective High School test results for eldest daughter and eldest son challenged.
Documents produced under FOI show that for both our eldest son and eldest daughter the Leader of the Selective Schools Unit acessed the file after the Selection Commitees met and had made their decision and changed the marks for both my daughter and for my son to lower marks, under the guise of an error in calculation so that they would not be successful for selective school placement. In the case of my son the leader of the Selective Schools unit physically took away his place in a Selective School and moved him to the Reserve list after the decision was made to offer him a place by the Selection Commitee members. There is clear evidence of bias and manipulation. Allegations were not investigated.
4. In 2003 the original test papers were destroyed on the day the matter was for planning meeting at the ADministrative Decisions Tribunal with the full knowledge of the DET that these original documents had been requested to be produced under FOI and we were actively seeking these original documents so as to verify test marks. The matter was being put before the Administrative Decision Tribunal as the DET would not obey the FOI rules in relation to the production of documents. The fact that the Selective Schools Unit destroyed State Records that were requested under FOI seems not to matter to those in power within the system. Our allegations were ignored and not investigated on the basis that I was a deemed a repetitive corresondent and was presented as vexatious by the person against whom the allegations were being made.
4. From the Year 2000 to date all formal complaints that involve even our younger children and that refer to different incidents in the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 an 2008 are given to those whom we allege are targeting and inflicting this harm on our family to 'deal with'. These people have chosen a 'cover up' as a way of dealing with the complaint and the DET have taken no action to protect the children from further bullying or harm.
5. For over 6 years we have been making formal requests that certain persons not be permitted to handle any school applications, tests or matters to do with our family including accessing documents requested under FOI as they have had serious formal allegations against them of bias, manipulation, tampering, bullying and misconduct - our requests are ignored.
6. Recently we requested the Selection Commitee Registers (that the members sign on the day that they sat on the Selection Committee deliberations to indicate that they have no conflict of duties and to show who was sitting on the commitee and these documents are not being produced. These documents would clearly show what happened on the day of the meeting and what decisions were made. These documents are said to not be able to be located.
7. Recently the Lists and reports in relation to the Selection Commitee meetings were produced but the Primary list that set out the outcomes on the day the Selection Committees met is not the original list that was prepared and decided on the day. The list that was produced is not the orignal document. The DET says that they have produced what they have. Documents are being withheld and destroyed. In certain documents that were produced it clearly shows that for both my eldest children their applications were accessed after the decision was made to offer them a place and their scores were changed to lower scores to deny them access and to discredit them.
8. An FOI application was lodged seeking evidence by way of the report of the 'investigation' that the DET have said to have conducted and that they have referred to numerous times in order not to investigate even fresh complaints and allegations that involve the treatment of our other children. The DET have refused to provide evidence of their 'alleged' investigation stating that it is an unreasonable diversion of resources. This is despite the fact that they clearly say in briefings/submissions that investigations have taken place and that those with allegations against them have been cleared of any misconduct. It is a fact that all evidence in our possession clearly says that this is not the case even to the point of written statements being made by the Legal Directorate and other Departments that we received under FOI that that clearly says that the allegations have never been investigated.
9. Despite the DET stating in numerous briefings and correspondence that the Ombudsman has investigated the matter (documents from the Ombudsman's office clearly say that the matter was not investigated under the Ombudsmans Act). The DET have said in evidence that they hold no documentary evidence of any conversation or any communications with the Ombudsman. They say it is normal practice not to keep any correspondence in relation to any investigations by the Ombudman?
10. The DET says that the Policy regarding how they should handle complaints are only guidelines and that they do not have to be followed. They also say that not all allegations of abuse of children require to be 'investigated' It appears that bullying and victmisation is ALLOWED and children being abused by adults are not protected.
11. Policy Documents that relate to the process used for each period in relation to Selection Committee guidelines have gone missing and have not been produced.
12. Certain applications lodged by my children have been lost or cannot be located.
13. The more they targeted our children and family the more we complained the power it gave them to discredit us and ignore our complaints. The less records that they kept and the more records they destroyed the more power it gave them to cover the matter up.
You have to wonder what has to happen to trigger a proper and fair investigation into the actions of public servants. It seems that in order to be afforded rights you have to do something criminal.
Out of curiosity, what is your actual aim now - are you suing for compo or do you want someone to say sorry? Aren't your kids at uni? Do they still want all this pursued?
X. Thank you for your question.
My aim now is still what is has been all along and that is to have the matter properly and independently investigated as per Policy and Procedure require and the person who is manipulating with scores and applications be removed from their position of power as should be the law. I also expect an apology as do my children - we need to clear our name.
I have been presented as being vexatious and a pushy mother and even a bully by the Department and this is so far from the truth that it isn't funny. They are the ones with the problems and issues.
When they manipulated with the scores and changed the applications so that the children would be unsuccessful it had the affect of presenting the children as not gifted or high achieving and it has discredited and defamed them and me. It might not seem like an issue to some but when you are an obvious gifted student people delight in cutting you down and using everything that they can to do so. Their failure to get into Selective Schools made them the butt of jokes about their intellect, performance and capabilities not to mention what it presented about me who was publicly complaining about the neglect of their education as identified gifted students. The failure to get a place also caused them severe depression as they had been waiting to get into a school that could better cater for their ‘identified’ and ‘obvious’ needs. School goes for alot of years of thier life.
We also seek to be reimbursed for numerous things including what this has cost us and that includes over $35,000 in Solicitors costs that we have outlaid trying to be afforded procedural fairness and natural justice. There are also school fees for three of our children over 9 years each. It is a lot of money. We had to put the children into non-government schools as a result and I had to go back to work as a result. There are also significant medical and psychological fees that we have outlaid over the years as this actually made my children and family emotionally and physically sick.
Personally I believe that the children deserve to be compensated for what was done to them as this seriously impacted their health, wellbeing and reputation over many years and because the matter hasn't been resolved and we are still seen as 'the problems' it still sits over their heads and their reputations have been impacted as has mine.
To date the bully responsible is getting paid more and more of taxpayers money and has more authority whilst we (the targets) are the ones who have had to pay.
My children do not take kindly to being targeted and bullied and nor does my husband and I and they expect me to fight this for as long as I can as they worry for other children as this person is in a position of unquestionable power and the system is corruptible and so she is able to harm children without question or challenge. This puts our children at risk of harm.
Two are in University this year; the other two are still in school one starts high school next year. He isn't even going to try out for Selective School placement as his application will be sent to the same person as before so that she can cross our name off again.
They can delay and drag this matter on so as to deny us our rights, it isn’t going to make a difference to us it will not mean that we will just let it go. For some reason other people think that if they can ignore you for long enough you should just let it go. The worse the DET treats you and the more they deny you your rights the more it seems that the general public supports them. If I get tired there is a good chance my youngest kid will take it on and force me and my husband to continue this fight as he is very big on Justice and what is right and he has the full support as do I from the other siblings.
Jolanda
Posted by: X | February 28, 2009 at 06:35 PM
When will you accept that your children are just not as bright as you think they are. How embarrassing for 18/19 yo to have there mother carry on like you do. Get a life with your children and just enjoy the years ahead. Get over it.
Jolanda. When will you get it through your head Lilli that my children are that bright and this isn't about proving that they are gifted as that is obvious to everybody and has been confirmed many times over by Registered Psychologists, even those employed by the DET - and is obvious to those who has come into contact with them.
This is about holding Government bully psychopath employees to account for manipulation of state records and the FOI process and bias, bullying, victimisation, vilification, neglect and discrimination against children. School should be a safe place for our kids and as law abiding citizens we should be entitled to procedural fairness and natural justice.
How embarassing for a female to not support another female in seeking protection and justice for her children? What are you a bully? You comments certainly do not show you as a compassionate or even caring female or mum. You seem to not stop for one minute to consider the children and what has bee done to them. Even if doubt what I say, one would have to agreet that allegations of this nature should be investigated as per policy and procedure require and not just covered up. This is necessary to protect children.
Government employees have an obligation to treat children fairly and without bulling and discrimination.
My children are not embarrassed about their mother fighting the bulliles in the Education System. They expect me to fight and not to many of their peers would look down on them for taking the Department of Education to account for manipulating with their test scores and school applications so as to do them harm and to pay them back? There is nothing embarassing about standing up to adult DET bullies. My children are very proud.
Children are starting to stand up to bullies, my children just had to deal with adult bullies so I have stood up for them on their behalf.
Oh and we are enjoying our life, this is not taking over my life as you seem to think this is just a responsibility that I have to deal with. It is part of being a good mum.
Posted by: Lilli | March 01, 2009 at 02:59 PM
I am no bully but I am a mum of two children who did get into the Selective School of there choice on there own merit. With no interference from myself or my husband. Whether my children are classified bright I don't know as I have never bothered or needed to have them assessed by a Registered Psychologist.I am such a loving caring mother they have never needed Psychologists.
Jolanda. Then you are lucky Lilly because my children were already reading and writing years before they started school and when they got to school they thought they were going to learn and they became so disilusioned and depressed when they were confronted with the reality of school. It was a teacher who suggested I get them IQ tested as the kids didn't want to go to school and were becoming physically and emotionally sick at having to spend all day in that environment.
My children had difficulty getting into selective schools with Selective School test marks that did not represent any of their achivements in all thier years of education and that were so low that my children said that they had to see the tests and their answers to believe them. So we requested documents under FOI as the children wanted to see what was going on. The DET destroyed their original answer sheets despite them being specifically requested to be produced under FOI so as to verify the marks so we couldnt' check the results. Then the documents showed that the Leader of the Selective Schools Unit went in AFTER the Selection Commitees had made their decision to offer my children a place and changed their scores under the guise of an error in calculation and removed thier name from the 'offer' list for a place.
It was my children who wanted to go to Selective Schools because they were tired and bored at school as it was a complete waste of their time and all through their education the teachers had said to them that the school didnt' have the resources to cater for them and that when they got to Selective Schools that things would be better.
It isn't my fault that the documents showed substantial evidence of bias, tampering and manipulation.
I honestly don't think that if you are the caring mother that you say that you are and your children were neglected, bullied, targeted and victimised over 8 years by a person who is now heading the Selective Schools Unit and has the oppportunity and power to discriminate at will that you would like somebody telling you to just let it go. A caring mother would consider other people's children too. My children deserve to be treated fairly and I will stand up for my children for as long as it takes.
Oh and Lilly just one more thing, your kids were lucky that they were not in the same class and year as my kids as if they were they may not have gotten in because the marks are scaled and moderated to the marks that other students got from the school in the test. My innocent childrens marks were dropped and so it impacted on other innocent children.
Posted by: Lilli | March 03, 2009 at 05:43 PM
Funny Jolanda one of my children started school with your eldest child. However unlike yours they only went to one primary and one high school. The brighter of my two children couldn't read particulary well until they were in 1st class when it all clicked. Being able to read and write before school means nothing, and before you say anything yes I always read to both my children.
By constantly saying I am an uncaring mother is that not bullying.
Jolanda. I have never said that only children who are reading before they start school are bright or gifted. But here is the problem, if you child is already reading fluently for many years before they start kindergarten and they start kindergarten with the belief that they are going to school to learn they are going to get very disapointed and disilussioned. At infants/primary level it doesn't get better. It is also a fact that my children were bullied by a teacher and that is how this whole thing started. My children become depressed and they became ill as not only where they being neglected they were also being bullied. We could have dealt with the neglect but when they were bullied they crossed the line. The days are very long and draining when you already know everything that they you are going to be taught and when you find what you are taught and how you are treated humiliating.
If you were at the same school then you would know that we lived "across the road from the school'. Do you really think that we wanted to move our kids? We were forced to move our kids as our kids became depressed and they didn't want to go to school. It made them sick and for one the stress and fear of attending school triggered an auto-immune disease in her body.. If my children had to go to more than one primary school it is because of what was being done to them and how they have been treated. They requested the changes, they didn't want to go to school - they felt victimised, humiliated and for alot of the time scared. They would be more than happy to tell whoever wants to hear thier side of the story how they felt and what was done to them - problem is that NOBODY has ever asked. As a parent what are you supposed to do tell your children to take drugs so that they can cope. At no time did I ever force my children to change schools, they were the ones who wanted to change because they believed that with change there is always the hope that things will be better.
If you feel no compassion for what my children have been through then I am sorry I do not see you as a caring person. If you think that I am bullying you by saying that then what can I say expect did you read what you have said about me?
Posted by: Lilli | March 11, 2009 at 02:33 PM
Now, I am pretty sure you won't put this up, but what the hell. It appears that you have been unable to accept that your children have not met the criteria nor were smart enough to gain entrance to a selective school. Where most parents would accept this and move on with their own and their family's lives, you appear to have pursued a very long, drawn out and costly campaign because you are convinced of a 'conspiracy' against you. I feel very sorry for your children who must be secretly embarrassed at your behaviour, Jolanda. The one thing that you appear to have taught them in life is that if you don't get your way - don't work harder - just hire a lawyer and sue.
I'll also put a question to you that I have asked three times previously yet received no response. You have said on the DT blogs that school has 'failed' your children. Yet it appears that your children have gone to university, and you yourself have stated that they are very well read. So which is it? It is this point that I find undermines your whole arguement. The fact that you have avoided answering the question numerous times previously only raises more doubts.
May I ask why you 'had' to put your kids in a non-government school, and so should be compensated? It was your choice to do that. It was your choice to return to work (welcome to the real 21st century with the rest of us). So why on earth should you be compensated?
Having read several of your responses to other people on here you draw a really painful and sad picture of yourself Jolanda. One would actually feel sorry for you Jolanda if you weren't representative of this new age belief that the world owes you everything on a silver platter; and if you don't receive it, take legal action.
You also need to be aware that much of your material on here could be used against you in a defamatory case, which would see your legal costs spiral from the $35K they currently stand at to enough to take your home from you.
Jack. You do not seem to be listening. But here is the thing Jack, if my material is defamatory as you say then I invite the DET to take me to court and sue me for defamation. Have you ever wondered why they havent done that? I was actually threatened twice a few years ago in writing with defamation in relation to different posts and I invited them to let me know exactly what it is that I am saying that is defamatory, understanding of course that the truth is a defence to defamation as is it if you believe it to be in the public interest, so that I can review my blog and if it is defamatory then I would remove the posts and make a retraction. Both times they didn't respond. Now ask yourself Jack - why wouldn't they respond and why wouldn't they take me to court if what I say is a lie and is so defamatory?
My children would have accepted their results had they believed that there could have been a possibilty that they could have achieved that result but they were so not in line with their ability and achievement and how they believed that they went that they wanted to see what had happened so we requested documents under FOI - it is our right. It isn't our fault that the documents came back with so much evidence of discrepancies, inconsistancies, deletions, ommisions and evidence of bias and manipulation that it confirmed what they believed and that is that it wasn't their marks. You want me to tell them to accept that?
My children are not embarrased about what I do. I am responding to their requests. They expect me to fight for their right to be treated fairly and with respect. That you choose to read me as coming across as a painfullly sorry picture is your problem not mine. My goal is to fight for change in the education system and and to fight for justice to ensure that there is integrity in the system so that our children are safe. It is as easy as that.
Oh and Jack, see when you ask for monies that you have paid out or are going to pay out to be refunded or paid it is actually called reimbursement - NOT compensation. That you don't know the difference says alot.
Posted by: Jack from Padstow | March 27, 2009 at 06:42 PM
Again you have failed to answer my very simple question. I will put it to you for a forth and final time. You have said on the DT blogs that school has 'failed' your children. Yet it appears that your children have gone to university, and you yourself have stated that they are very well read. So which is it?
Why hasn't the DET taken you to court? The answer is very simple. It is too busy to be worried about such a small and insignificant case. However, if you make enough noise then they will eventually spend the time and money pursuing you. At the moment that money is being used to educate children.
Seriously, anyone who requests all the documents under the FOI act because their children consistently fail to make the grade has a chip on their shoulder. If there was such a conspiracy then thousands children would have been affected and it would have been exposed years ago (or do you consider yourself so special that they randomly decided to discriminate against your children?)- programs like ACA and TT live for that stuff. So obviously it is nothing but a figment of your imagination.
I didn't make the grade for Selective High schools the first time round. What did it teach me? Put your head down, bum up and work hard - and I made it into a selective school for Year 10 and the senior years. My parents encouraged me to work hard to achieve results - not sue people due to my own stupidity.
It is not just me who sees you this way. Check out the other posts on this site (the ones that haven't been censored). Check out the responses on the DT blog sites. There are dozens of people who think the same way.
Please don't try and lecture me about knowing the difference between reimbursement and compensation when your final paragraph has not been constructed correctly. Couple this with the fact that you chose to send your kids to a private school - no one forced you - and you have got to be kidding on all accounts.
I await your response, especially on the question which I have posed 4 times to you now without a reply.
Jack. I have on many occasions explained how the failures of the DET have impacted on my children. For starters two might have made it to University but that was despite the DET. Two are still in the school system and they are restricted to the schools they can attend as a result of the failure of the DET to protect them.
For years they feared going to school, they became sick they suffered anxiety attacks and depression. Their memories of school are full of anguish, humiliation and despair and they have wished most of their childhood away. The ones who are still in school do not feel safe in the education system. They don't trust educators.
For your information the stress that my children had to endure being ‘neglected, victimised and bullied’ for so many years and not protected by the DET has caused them at different times in their life to have to undergo medical intervention and the stress also triggered auto-immune disease and in one of my children case that resulted in having to come under the care of a team of pain specialists and psychologists at the children’s hospital. At one stage we seriously feared for the mental health of one of our children and had to have this child pretty much on suicide watch. You must remember they were identified as having special educational needs and the DET went out of their way to bully them, vilify them and deny them access to the education that they were identified as needing. Bullying is a very cruel type of abuse and has serious repercussions on children. Bullying by exclusion and by discredting is still bullying.
Maybe you have never been systematically neglected, bullied and victmised in your place of work but if you did you would know the stress and anguish that it causes. It is even worse when you are a child and it is being done by the adults who should be there to protect you and when it is done in front of your peers. That my husband and I supported our children, protected them and stuck up for them and they have come through okay doesn’t take away that they were failed by the system. The Education system is supposed to protect children not hand them over to the bullies.
For your information we were targeted because we complained about the neglect of the education of our children. If that means that we are special then what can I say? It is called payback and discrediting those who complain. We also know two other families who have been dealt with the same way. Both requested documents under FOI. One took it all the way to the Minister and local members but unfortunately the stress and the fact that the DET would not protect the children and everybody turned a blind eye and turned their back on them scared them so much that they will not come forward for fear of their children being even further victimised.
Just because the DET have not dealt with this matter fairly and properly doesn’t mean that they are innocent. WE have alleged a conspiracy to cover up and we have the evidence to support it. For your information the DET have spend substantial amounts of money over 6 years trying to stop us from getting access to documents that by law we should be entitled to. The Crown Solicitors Office has been involved. If I was lying they would have spent the money instead trying to shut me down instead of trying to deny me access to documents. The fact that they haven’t supports everything that I say.
It is of serious concern to me that adults, who should be protecting children, are more concerned with protecting bullies employed by the DET. These are serious allegations. In order to ensure that children are protected they should be independently and fairly investigated. Not given the to the bully to deal with. There are people in positions of power who are abusing their power – they need to be stopped and our name cleared.
As soon as I get access I will post a copy of a document that was a Public Meeting where Ministers were present in relation to some schools in the North Shore. At that meeting back in December 2002 the Vice President of a Public High stood up and said that there was a conspiracy in the Selective Schools Unit that was crippling the Selective Schools process. Despite Ministers being present and also being contacted by me after I received documents ( I didn't know this person or that she had said this at the time) that showed bias and manipulation in the Selective Schools Unit they all chose to ignore and turn a blind eye. It is the labor way. The whole Labor government and public servants are by their actions or inaction bullies.
Posted by: Jack from Padstow | March 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Ok, here is what I don't understand. You say you have obtained all this damning evidence under FOI. You say that you have been stonewalled and have got no where with the DET. I have a very simple question? If your evidence is so compelling and so conclusive of a conspiracy, why have you not approached media programs such as Today Tonight or ACA? Stories like this are their bread and butter. If you have such damning evidence why not take the DET to the court of public opinion? Surely these programs would be falling over themselves to get to you and this information? They also pay quite well. If your evidence is as damning as you say it is, you could hang the DET out to dry publicly and seek your justice and ensure no other child is put through this again.
Methinks the reason you haven't is that the 'evidence' may be not as complete, concrete and solid as you say it is. It may be open to massive interpretation (as a lot of data is). If I'm wrong then call under the offices of Channels 7 and 9 - I guarantee you will the headline story next week - 'Conspiracy Against OUR Children!' the headlines will read....
Jack. You think it is so easy? You have no idea! I have contacted the media and guess what, they say that they are not doing stories of this nature/type. There are people in the media that know that I am telling the truth (and have said as much) but they do not want to 'go there'. Maybe they too worry that they will pay the price. It seems that in Education the bullies are large and are in high places and have alot of power.
I was once told by Whistlblowers Australia and by a Labor Minister not to bother going to Solicitors as they will just take my money. They had reason to say what they said. I have gone to Solicitors, some have said that they do not take on cases like this and others, although they have confirmed that I have evidence to support my allegations, have told me that the DET have a bottomless pitt of money and they will employ the highest ranking Barristers and legal team and they will just drag the matter on for so long that it will destroy us and we could loose our house no matter what. They also want huge monies up front.
You live in fantasy land wherein you think that things happen a certain way but in reality it isn't like that.
Most people do not give a damn about Tall Poppies and do not have a problem with others cutting them down a size - or two.
My aim now is to have the documents amended (and there are many) so as to reflect the truth. The matter of the Amendment of documents will be put to the DET and the Administrative Decisions Tribunal if necessary. It is our right to ensure that documents held by an Government Agency are not incomplete, incorrect and misleading.
See the thing is Jack that the person responsbile, when questions are asked just changes the rules and applies her own. When my eldest son and eldest daughters scores were changed, after the Selection Commitees met and had made their decision (this has been confirmed by the DET) the Leader of the Selective Schools unit said that it was because there had been an error in calculation. But the Selection Commitees have discretion to calculate the scores in different ways and two seperate selection committees on different days calculated both my children's scores the same way. The Leader went in after hours and changed both my children's scores and adopted a completely different method of caculating the scores that went against what the Selection Commitees awarded my children. This is clearly shown in the documents. The person who changed the scores to lower scores was the same person that we have been making allegations of bias, victimisation and corruption against. Then when we asked for the Policies in relation to how they add up the scores relevant at the time they have all gone missing. When we asked for the original test documents they destroyed them and they have lied about me, and about everything. How much more do you need? This lady just says that there was some errors and discrepancies but it wouldn't have made a difference and people just accept that when the fact is that the only reason nothing would have made a difference is because she had it in for my family and wanted to discredit and defame us because we complained.
Posted by: Jack from Padstow | April 02, 2009 at 04:31 PM
I live in a fantasy land hey? For the record, I know it is that easy to get on TT or ACA. A bullying incident at the school in which I teach was blown way out of proportion (only one side of the story was given, making the 'bullied' child appear as an innocent angel when she had actively engaged in bullying herself - but that is beside the matter) and made it on ACA two years ago. Naturally, the school refused to comment but ACA ran the story anyhow, embellishing deatils and plain making some stuff up to fill the gaps. This was aired only two weeks after the event. I was teaching at the school at the time. The 'victims'' family was also paid $5000 for the story.
If you have all your evidence I am sure that such programs would eat it up. Try SBS or even Seven's new 'Sunday Night.'
Jack. Was the person accused of the bullying a beuracrat in position of power employed by the DET? I think you might find that there is the difference?
Posted by: Jack from Padstow | April 03, 2009 at 10:49 AM
How does it make a difference? How can a 'corrupt' DET beuracrat hold any influence over a program who is only interested in ratings? Surely you are not suggesting that Channel 9 is scared of the DET? Seriously.
By the way, I have read some of your posts from your Member of Cook sites from a few years ago, where you yourself clearly state that your story was picked up by a newspaper. So which is it?
Jack. It is a corrupt Government Department. Government Departments are made up of people. People who are capable of good and bad and people who stick together and have alot of influence over many things.
Yes that was the local paper that my children were in. There was a spread in the local paper with a picture of my children when they protested outside the Department of Education. It wasn't any of the bigger papers or newspapers. It didn't actually result in anything except more people ostrasizing us for fear of their children also being targeted and more schools knowing the situation and putting a warning black cross against our name it actually didn't help to get any issues resolved although we wanted people to know what was happening as the rumours that were spread about us were very unfair. In order for there to be action it has to be taken up by the big papers and they do not want to go there.
I have also told my story on blogs many times in the papers but see the thing is that we live in a society where bullies rule and people just do not care. Children are not protected. But I care, and I will continue to fight for truth and justice.
Posted by: Jack from Padstow | April 03, 2009 at 09:42 PM
Stress and some unpleasent experiences may lead to anxiety. Some natural anxiety remedies to look into are St.John's Wort, SAMe, L-Theanine, and Tryptophan. There's also cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and programs like Panic Away and The Linden Method, to name a few. Hope this helps!
Jolanda: Thanks.
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