“My Children Are Not Truant — They Are Thinking.”
⟡ A Letter Regarding Educational Sovereignty, Institutional Amnesia, and the Absence of a Homeschool Policy in Paradise
IN THE MATTER OF: Learning, Law, and the Reluctance of the State to Provide Guidelines It Claims to Enforce
⟡ METADATA
Filed: 8 May 2020
Reference Code: SWANK-TCI-EDU-HOMESCHOOL-POLICY
Court File Name: 2020-05-08_Records_HomeschoolingPolicyRequestAndComplaint
Summary: A masterfully polite but unrelentingly incisive email requesting the nonexistent homeschooling policy from the TCI government, while simultaneously dismantling institutional assumptions about truancy, learning, and the geography of knowledge.
I. What Happened
Polly Chromatic (then using the name Noelle Bonneannée) submitted a formal email complaint and request for policy clarification after months of disruptive, incoherent interventions into her lawful homeschooling practice. Despite having a consistent educational routine and four thriving children, she was repeatedly interrupted by individuals who not only lacked the authority to interfere — they lacked the documents they were pretending to enforce.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That Turks and Caicos Islands had no written homeschooling policy in place at the time
That the state attempted to enforce non-existent guidelines through informal pressure and vague insinuations
That the local truancy officer was repeatedly misapplying their remit
That learning does not begin at 8am and end at 3pm, nor does it take summers off
That grocery stores, gardens, and real life contain more math, economics, and social learning than most classroom worksheets
That being interrupted by underinformed community members is not an educational enhancement
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the only thing more absurd than interfering with a homeschooling family is doing so without any legal framework whatsoever. Because a mother requesting policy in order to comply is not a threat — she is an administrator without a salary. And because there is no truancy when the children are not truant and the truancy officer has no paperwork.
IV. Violations
Absence of published educational guidelines
Procedural interference with lawful private education
Misuse of truancy enforcement mechanisms
Educational discrimination based on method and location
Systemic failure to recognise learning as a continuous human activity, not a timetable
V. SWANK’s Position
We log this letter as a document of velvet resistance, filed with humility, literacy, and a maternal IQ far exceeding the administrative bodies in question. SWANK London Ltd. affirms:
That education without interference is not neglect, it is nurture
That policies must exist before they are enforced
And that there is no shame in learning from your children — but there is immense shame in trying to interrupt it
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