EDUCATION - KEEPING THEM HONEST

If the Legal Officer of the DET calls it a Conspiracy - is it a conspiracy?

I have been lucky in that I have bought a new scanner/copier and it is sitting right next to my computer.  Previously I had to go upstairs to my daughter's study and bother her when I wanted to scan things and she had to do the process and then save it and then had to send it to me by email or I had to use her computer to post things so the whole process was difficult.  Now I can just sit here and scan all the interesting emails that I have from the Department of Education and put them straight onto my blog.

During the course of our families matter the Department of Education has tried to present me as paranoid about a conspiracy and of me having accused 'everybody' of being part of the conspiracy.   They have said in submissions that "There is no conspiracy against my family".  I can scan that submission if anybody wants to see it.

However in the email below the Senior Legal Officer of the Legal Services Directorate of the Department of Education specifically refers to a conspiracy.  She not only refers to a conspiracy she states that the correspondence has been delayed so that then the Crown Solicitor is also part of the conspiracy? 

I will set out the email here below in case you dont want to open the link but check it yourself if you do not believe me.  I have scanned page 2 first and then page 1 as the email is split between the two: Email 13 June 2006

From:  Lee Rayer -  TO:  Magda Pollak - Sent 13 June 2006 9:48 a.m.

Morning, I hope your weekend wasn't as bad as you thought it was going to be.  I received a copy of correspondence that Chrisa Ludlow forwarded to Mrs Challita's solicitor which provided the documentation from your Unit and apologised for the delay and saying that it was caused by an oversight in the Crown Solicitors Office.  So now Christa will be part of the conspiracy.

Christa wanted me to thank you very much for your patience and tolerance as a witness in this matter. I want to also thank you for your professionalism in the face of great adversity.  Let me know when you want me to look a the letter you are drafting about Amanda's application. 

Regards
Lee Raynor - Senior Legal Officer - Legal Services Directorate

Of course despite formal requests that Magda Pollak have nothing to do with my daughters matter and after having been advised that she had removed herself from the processing of the application etc, documents produced under FOI show that Magda Pollak was the one who was consulted and who was sent my daughters original test papers by ACER (the company that is supposed to mark the tests).  The DET also marked Amanda's test instead of ACER, but presented it as though ACER marked it, and Magda Pollak was the one who was drafting all correspondence in relation to matters to do with my daughter - even from home on the weekends.  This is despite the fact that formal allegations of bias, bullying, victimisation, neglect and manipulation of state records having been made against her and formal requests were made to keep her away from anything to do with my family or children.

Further documents produced under FOI show that Magda lied about Amanda's IQ test results (the DET have agreed to make a notation/amend the records to that effect but that of course doesn't raise questions at the DET or in their eyes suggest wrongdoing), she lied about Amanda's application being put before the Selection Commitee, she lied about the results of my daughters school academic performance results and Amanda's application was never put before the Selection Commitees despite it being presented in letters and submissions as though the Selection Commitees were the ones who made the determination to not offer my daughter a place.  The fact that Amanda was an accelerated student and young for her year was also not noted as required as this would have immediately flagged her application and meant that her application should have been put before the Selection Commitee for consideration.

My daughter was culled by Magda Pollack and the Selection Commitee was not given the opportunity to consider her application.  Because of the failure of the DET or Government to act on numerous formal complaints against Magda Pollak our children and family have been denied impartial and unbiased decisions  - this was the 3rd of our children that Magda Pollak was allowed to bully, victmise, vilifiy and neglect and the 7th time she had done this to one of my children.  We also know of other children who have similar documents produced under FOI and who were treated the same way.

Instead of the allegations being investigated Magda Pollak was given our families matters and complaints to 'take care of' and she was promoted to the Leader of the Selective Schools Unit where she has control over all documents and everything to do with the process.  Apparently nobody else in the DET knows how to identify a gifted child or knows how to do the process, or knows how to provide documents in relation to matters to do with the Selective High School process.

EDUCATION DESPAIR & DISGRACE

It is with sadness that I read about the decision against Rajaratnam Premachandran in relation to allegations of defamation against a Primary School Principal. 

It is of no suprise that the newspapers present the story incorrectly, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/angry-dads-80k-defamation-bill/story-e6freuy9-1225794962835, this story was never about the students missing out on a Selective School place.  The email complaining about the Principal and the education of the school was sent in April and the Selective School results didn't come until until July.

This story is about a family trying to do the best for their bright children and being in despair at the failures of the public education system.   The failure of the comprehensive school system to educate mainstream public school students to a level of competition against  students who are in Private schools or who are tutored/coached or who are in Opportunity Class is extreme.  

The expressions used by Prem just represents his background and his somwhat limited grasp of the English culture/language - he certainly would do well to work on that but there was never any malice.   This was an honest opinion based on experiences and the desire to provide for his daughters. To not be allowed to speak out about it to interested parties without having to pay compensation is a disgrace.

This is an attack on our freedom of speech and in particular members of the Department of Education.  Our Government continues to cover their own back.