⟡ Three Years of Compliance. One Letter of Threat. ⟡
Filed: 5 August 2020
Reference: SWANK/TCI/2020-HOMESCHOOL-RETALIATION
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I. You Had the Forms. You Had the Dates. You Just Wanted a Reason to Escalate.
This letter to Mr. Edgar Howell, Director of Education, was submitted not in rage — but in finality.
It followed:
Three years of documented, lawful homeschool notification
Repeated reports and educational summaries
No institutional response
And then — a safeguarding concern, issued not because the child was unseen, but because the parent was no longer submissive
You didn’t forget our correspondence.
You simply repackaged it as defiance.
II. When Compliance Becomes the Evidence Against You
This document:
Chronicles institutional non-response
Exposes the manipulation of attendance metrics
Details procedural breach disguised as concern
Names every step where silence was converted into threat
The logic was simple:
You sent reports.
They ignored them.
Then they used the absence of their own reply to allege neglect.
It wasn’t a safeguarding protocol.
It was a bureaucratic trap with child welfare as the bait.
III. Why SWANK Filed It
Because no lawful family should be threatened for preferring literacy over loyalty.
Because failing to reply to a parent does not constitute grounds for investigation.
Because this letter exists not to explain — but to document the quiet coup of procedural reversal.
Let the record show:
The Department was informed
The education was delivered
The silence was theirs
The escalation — was deliberate
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not permit paperwork failure to masquerade as child protection.
We do not accept that lawful autonomy must be apologised for.
We do not allow agencies to create emergencies from their own unread inboxes.
Let the record show:
We complied.
You failed to reply.
And then you called it neglect.
This isn’t a letter of concern.
It’s an archival indictment — with attachments.