🪞A Bicycle Seized, A Curriculum Stolen
In re: Pedals, Pedagogy, and the Pomp of Interference
⟡ SWANK London Ltd. Evidentiary Archive
Filed Date: 14 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-A10-EDUBIKE
Court File Name: 2025-07-14_Addendum_EducationBikeObjection.pdf
Summary: Statement of position objecting to the seizure of a child's bicycle, the collapse of lawful home education, and the unlawful confinement of four U.S. citizen children under the guise of safeguarding.
I. What Happened
On 14 July 2025, Westminster Children’s Services responded to a simple request: allow a 16-year-old boy named Regal to use the new bicycle purchased for him, and return all four children to their lawful, thriving home education.
The local authority refused.
Their justification?
“Road safety training is being arranged.”
Regal, nearly 17, is treated as a toddler.
The bicycle remains barred.
The home education model — interdisciplinary, cultural, experiential — has been discarded.
The children are kept indoors. Their movement is restricted. Their emotional and cognitive lives are withering under institutional dullness.
No lawful order justifies this.
No consultation was made.
No parent agreed.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Regal is a legally competent 16-year-old with a right to movement, activity, and autonomy.
His bicycle, lawfully purchased by his mother, has been arbitrarily withheld.
The children’s former educational routine was lawful, immersive, and developmentally exceptional.
The replacement tutoring model is insufficient, isolating, and imposed without lawful authority.
The current restrictions violate not only education law, but common decency.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because confiscating a bicycle under the pretext of “future safety” is not safeguarding — it is symbolic captivity.
Because cancelling an education grounded in environmental ethics, crisis response, classical study, and cross-cultural resilience is not neutrality — it is bureaucratic vandalism.
Because the law does not permit this — and the children deserve more than worksheets and curfews.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989, Section 20 – No parental responsibility acquired without consent
Human Rights Act 1998 / ECHR, Article 8 – Right to family life, education, movement
UNCRC, Articles 28, 29, 31 – Right to education, rest, play, cultural and artistic life
As Bromley’s Family Law (2021, p. 640) affirms:
“If the parents object to continued accommodation, the child must be returned.”
“Education and care decisions made unilaterally… must be justified in law.”
No such justification has been given.
Polly Chromatic has lawfully objected.
V. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept Westminster’s rejection of liberty dressed as liability.
We do not accept that a tutor is superior to an educator who knows the soul of each child.
We do not accept the removal of autonomy, motion, culture, and curriculum in the name of alleged concern.
We demand:
Immediate delivery of Romeo’s bicycle
Daily return of the children to their lawful educational setting
Termination of any isolation or movement restriction not court-ordered
Written justification for any continued deprivation of routine, culture, and mobility
This is not a safeguarding scheme. It is an educational collapse perpetrated by the state.
Filed by: Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd
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