TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
This is what we want and we hope the new management wants it too,
but as of yet we are not totally sure that they do, but we are keeping
our ears to the ground.
WHY TIM WAS REALLY SUSPENDED!
The truth seems to have emerged this week and its ramification are not entirely obvious at the moment.
An ASD child was coming home with bruises etc., and bullying by pupils
was making him sick. Mother complained, Tim acknowledged that the
school could 'no longer meet his needs'
This is a bit odd, as why couldn't the school sort out the bullies? Aren't there enough staff?
Mother telephones 'school nurse' to ask when son was given calpol and
how much. Anna seems not to know, and says, but I can see him running
around in the playground now. Mother says 'no you can't because he's
sitting on the sofa in front of me ,being sick!!!' Misunderstanding or
lie? And why couldn't they find the boy when the mother arrived at the
school to pick him up?
Anyway mother asked for a move to St Elizabeth's, Marion Pluckrose of
the LEA was fobbing her off, then suddenly Tim was suspended, because
he's not allowed to say HF can't meet the boys needs, and in
investigating this it was discovered that the school was not filling in
statutory ACCIDENT FORMS. Marion then tells the mother that the boy
should stay at HF as they have new Heads. Mother doesn't fall for
this, threatens to tell the press and boy is at St. E's
WITHIN A DAY , he's happy, stops being sick and all's
well with the world.... but is it?
We all know that Barbara had various techniques for avoiding accident
reports. One was claiming they'd noticed injuries at 9.05 am
..which terrified and cowed a lot of parents and stopped them
complaining again. Secondly was to suggest that the injury was caused
on the transport. Thirdly was to just not fill in a report as required
by the law, so if Tim was doing any of this it is clear that he
learnt it from his predecessor
Isn't amazing how if you say you'll tell the press then you can get
whatever you want (not that I blame the parent, it was the right choice)
What is of concern is how much money was spent over the years getting
rid of pupils (and parents) that the school considered to be a problem,
although some of us would challenge their decisions as faulty, even
though it was in the best interest of the child. Cost of shipping kids
out of HF must be in the £millions. The parents who don't have this
bargaining chip of course have to leave their children in the school.
So what will happen to Tim? Well if he didn't do the accident reports
then that is illegal so dismissal is very likely. However it's not like
the LEA to 'out' one of their specially home grown and chosen Heads.
Surely they could have had a quiet word in his ear, rapped his knuckles
and carried on like they do with lots of similar problems, which
suggests this was used to get rid of him. When Tim was appointed
Webmaster stated catagorically that although he was a nice man there
were other people more suitable for the job and there was the usual
interview fix just like in Barbara's time. They wanted Tim so they
could manipulate him, and when he annoyed them by being honest, they
spat him out and probably ruined his career. But we know don't we
that the LEA doesn't care, does it. We have to hope that
(1) the new head is properly chosen on merit
(2) the financial black hole is properly investigated
(3) the parents are once again welcomed back into the school in partnership.
Only when this happens will this website shut down.
What do we know so far (a) Annual Reviews were not being done
(b)
Alot of fixtures and fittings paid for are not there
(c)
Some pupils are taught by HLSA's not teachers
(d)
Parents in general are kept out of the school