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My Diary Exposing The Truth

This is written by Beryl Roberts.

This diary is about my son’s and my own personal experience, of racism and injustice, harassment, victimisation, physical and verbal abuse, intimidation, the list goes on.

What is written in this diary by my son, are a list of incidents that took place in school, while my back was turned.

This diary shows the way I dealt with my complaints properly by following the Parents Complaints Procedure, from start to finish, and it also shows the effects that our experiences had on us both, as my son was constantly picked on by staff members, to the extent of me having no choice, but to remove both my children from that primary school, as my son had suffered trauma as a result.

This diary also uncovers the lies that have been told deliberately, in order for the primary school staff involved, to get away with what they did to my son, and it also uncovers the deliberate reluctance on the Education Authority’s part, to as much as listen to my son and to myself.

As you read through this diary, you will see how my son was affected, and you will also realise that this is a prime example of what IS happening in schools like Morningside Primary School today.

This diary is sufficient evidence of what my son and I went through at Morningside Primary School.

It also goes to show that when a parent complains on behalf of their child/children, nobody listens, I mean the Education Authority turns a blind eye.

The Education Authority cannot treat this matter as if it doesn’t matter, but they did. Therefore, the Education Authority defends the way schools like Morningside Primary School act towards our children, therefore, schools like Morningside Primary School act this way towards our children simply because they can. This diary is also a prime example of what is affecting our children’s education and behaviour today.

This unfortunately is reality! At times we as parents fail to identify what causes our children to misbehave in such ways, not knowing that there are schools that are one of the causes of our child/children’s behaviour difficulties, because schools like Morningside Primary School, like to pretend that they want the best for their pupils.

By reading this diary, and the lies that were deliberately put in some of the responses to me, and the lies that were written by Mr Edward Moss about myself and my son, it is obvious that schools that are that way inclined, would rather turn, and make the situation seem as if it’s the parents fault that their child/children behave the way they do. This I’m sure is to do with the fear of humiliation, publicity, imprisonment most probably, if found guilty or anything, which is what would happen to us parents if we were to do to staff members what they do to our children and get away with, which is the reaction Morningside Primary School wanted from me all along, so that the police could be called, for my complaints to be withheld, knowing full well that those staff members are guilty of what they put my son through.

I wasn’t aware of how common this is, until this happened to my son, and I’m certain that my son will not be the last child that this will happen to. It has been over a year that I have been complaining on behalf of my son, and still I didn’t get anywhere with the parent’s complaints procedure, so as far as Morningside Primary School (who are laughing at my son and I) are concerned, they have got away with what they did to my child, so who knows if they might want to go a little further with another innocent child?

And who knows whether or not if another child is going through exactly the same or worse? After all, Morningside Primary School’s attitude is WE RULE WITH AN IRON BAR, AND NOBODY CAN TOUCH US.

My child was picked on in every way possible, and with what my child had been put through, it was in no way easy for him, as my son was affected to the extent where I had no choice but to remove my children from that school, and is still affected, as he now has very little trust in white teachers in a school he now attends, which is a school that gives a dam about our children.

I know that these so called meetings were just a waste of time, as the Education Authority never intended to do anything from the very beginning, but I went along to these meetings anyway, and complained continuously in writing for my son, as he is a part of me that cannot defend himself. Serious injustice has been committed.

I was given the idea to write this diary, and I went along with that idea as the pen is mightier than the sword, because it is the truth that is written down on paper, and it is only the truth that can justify itself. What happened to my son will not stop happening to our children, and will only get worse unless something is done about this. These people are obviously conditioned to think that it’s ok to do this to a defenceless child and get away with it. With me writing to my MP and other people, who I now realise are not in a position to help, goes to show how the Education Authority does turn a blind eye.

This diary is a way of getting the message across, which is that people do need to realise what is actually happening in some schools today.

Everybody talks about black boys, underachievement, injustice, exclusions, special needs etc., but yet nothing concrete has ever been done about anything so far, or about any school.

QUESTION!

What other way is there than to expose this, for the institutional racism, and for everything else that comes with it to actually come to an end?

That Morningside Primary School should be pounced on, and exposed, before any of them retire. Tell me, what other way is there?

As the school teachers (who do know about child development) are qualified, it is obvious that they do know how to break a child down then. This is what we parents do fail to spot.

Teachers who are racist, are more than willing to do this, mainly to children of primary school age, as they are easily overlooked, and to children of a single mother, so that when the child’s behaviour manifests in the home, it will affect the single mother to the extent, that the single mother will have no choice but to run back to the primary school for help. That’s where these racist “teachers” are waiting with SPECIAL NEEDS, (their fishing net) as what the child manifests in the home, becomes unbearable, and is added pressure to what a single mother already has to cope with.

One way a child manifests, is when after having yet another bad day at school, i.e. being bullied, lied about, denied any privileges etc. by teachers, and then to have the parent not take the time to listen or to believe the child, the child undoubtedly will either breakdown, or lash out.

Breakdown

Experiencing trauma, become withdrawn or depressed, feel insignificant, inferior, no confidence, timid, suicidal etc.

Lash Out

To draw attention by rebelling against anyone, being quick-tempered, joining gangs, running away, even ending up in prison eventually.

These examples are just to name a few, because if this is what a black child is exposed to in a school with a few racist teachers, and has nobody to listen to them in the home, then the child will feel like “Well what the heck”, and end up not caring about anything or anyone (LAWLESSNESS). Can’t you see why these black youths don’t give a damn about a life? These black youths who are in gangs, who don’t even realise they have SO MUCH potential! This can and does trigger off a multitude of problems as the child gets older (PSYCHOLOGICALLY) or hard to deal or get along with, and before you know it, when he is older, he ends up in mental institutions and drugged up, in other words “written off”. But “BINGO” for the institutionalised racist education system.

That is why there are so many black men that are caught up in this evil and never ending downward spiral, and I hurt as I do know this, and to see how the Education System knows how to break a child down. Black children, especially boys, being denied a chance to grow up as decent black men in society, role models, the head in their own households, but instead they don’t even know how to even love themselves.

Going back to being denied a chance to grow up as normal (which is how a black child was born), this is slavery, unfinished business, as racism is still persistent to this day and is here to stay!

These racists that blend in with the Government, Education System, and the Social Services etc., who think of themselves as “the cream of society” have already:

USED us 	= 	Slavery ABUSED us 	= 	Times of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Civil rights movement etc. and now they want to REFUSE us	= 	By denying our black children a right to an education in this country and in America, where there is access to education for ALL!

Racism wants to get us psychologically, as that way we will definitely be finished. What happened to my son and I, is still continuing to destroy so many black families, and this is a problem that should be exposed. Never mind addressed.

I’ll continue on, as I know that many of my people are there fighting a losing battle, while this diary can be used to rock the boat. “Their boat!” My people who have already suffered as a result of this, need somebody to understand them, without them even trying to explain anything, as they won’t even know where to begin. We have to combat this. Think these children grow up to forget? NEVER!

Jean Millham, the head teacher of Morningside Primary School, Chatham Place, Hackney, E9, helped to bully my son and is still doing it to others.