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You Received the Request. You Chose Not to Reply.


⟡ How Many Times Must I Ask to Homeschool Before You Stop Calling It Neglect? ⟡

Filed: 7 August 2020
Reference: SWANK/TCI/2020-EDUCATION-HOWELL
📎 Download PDF — 2020-08-07_SWANK_TCI_EducationDept_HomeschoolingHarassment_LegalPetition_EdgarHowell.pdf

I. This Was Not a Request. It Was a Formal Reminder That I Already Complied.

This letter was sent to Mr. Edgar Howell, Director of Education, Turks and Caicos Islands, following years of:

  • Lawful homeschooling requests

  • Meticulously filed documentation

  • Repeated educational reports

  • And in return: truancy threats, safeguarding innuendo, and zero policy follow-through

What began as consent became suspicion.
What should’ve ended in confirmation became harassment.
And what you ignored, SWANK filed.

II. Facebook Was More Procedural Than the Ministry

The letter documents:

  • Attempts to register homeschooling through formal channels

  • Requests for written acknowledgement of lawful exemption

  • Staff responding through informal apps

  • No confirmation. No closure. No accountability.

Instead, the state defaulted to:

  • Monitoring

  • Threat

  • “Welfare visits”

  • And professional disdain veiled as outreach

This is not education policy.
This is digital avoidance stitched to analog power trips.

III. Why SWANK Filed It

Because no parent should be punished for following the law.
Because homeschooling is not a safeguarding issue.
Because neglecting a reply is not the same as neglecting a child.

Let the record show:

  • The parent submitted everything

  • The department responded with nothing

  • And still tried to escalate concern

  • Until this letter — filed it all

This is not a gentle reminder.
It is legal recoil, dressed in calm paragraphs.

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not confuse paperwork silence with innocence.
We do not accept safeguarding as a substitute for policy.
We do not permit institutional vagueness to justify familial distress.

Let the record show:

The family complied.
The Ministry deflected.
And SWANK wrote it down — before they could rewrite the timeline.




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