🛑 SWANK Petition: The Human Rights They Pretended Don’t Apply to Homeschooling Mothers
🗓️ 15 July 2020
Filed Under: human rights violations, emergency powers abuse, forced medical examinations, lawful homeschooling, child trauma, privacy breaches, misogynist oversight, procedural corruption
“I filed a curriculum. They sent police.”
— A Mother Whose Children Were Educated, Not Enrolled
On this solemn date, the 15th of July 2020, a ten-page petition was filed with the Human Rights Commission of the Turks and Caicos Islands by Polly Chromatic, a legally approved homeschooling mother, researcher, and writer — whose children were assaulted, her body medically endangered, and her home repeatedly violated under the grotesque excuse of “child welfare.”
Let us be precise.
⚖️ I. The Legal Right to Homeschool — Documented and Ignored
Permission was granted on 26 June 2017 by Mark Garland, yet the Department of Social Development—led by Ashley Adams, Jaala Kennedy, and Ashley Smith—refused to respect this approval.
• Curriculum: submitted yearly
• Degrees: provided (Bachelor + Master’s)
• Income: disclosed
• Communication: constant
Instead of de-escalation, they escalated surveillance. They questioned her about spanking. They challenged her religion. They dismantled her fence.
🏥 II. Medical Assault and the Weaponisation of Hospitals
May 2017: Her sons were sexually abused during an examination at the National Hospital in Grand Turk. The room had nine adults. No privacy. The mother objected — they ignored her. The doctor told her to forcibly retract her children’s foreskin with lotion, a direct violation of UK NHS guidelines, which state:
“Never try to force your son’s foreskin back… it may be painful and damage the foreskin.”
No accountability followed.
Only more visits.
🦠 III. High-Risk Asthma, Emergency Laws Broken, No Excuse
Despite Emergency COVID Powers and her documented eosinophilic asthma, social workers entered her property against her express instructions on 26 March 2020.
The law:
❌ They were not essential workers.
❌ They had no authority to bypass the Emergency Powers.
❌ They endangered her life, knowingly.
🧾 IV. Fundamental Rights Violated (as listed in the Constitution):
🏠 Right to private and family life
📚 Right to education
⚖️ Right to lawful administrative action
🧠 Freedom of conscience and belief
👩👧 Protection from inhuman treatment
📢 Freedom of expression
♻️ Environmental beliefs and practice
She did not invent these rights.
They simply failed to respect them.
📅 V. The Timeline That Won’t Be Forgotten
This petition meticulously documented nearly four years of violations, with dozens of emails, hospital visits, and unlawful property entries. It named names. Dates. Laws. Ordinances. Attachments.
It was not a cry for help.
It was a case file.
Bound in evidence. Sealed in truth. Ignored only by cowards.