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My parents had only sought apology, explanation, redress and restitution of the legal and extra costs incurred. But here they were offering money which had no bearing on having to remove me to outside of my community, to forego my achievements, or to find a school that would not inherit what can be demonstrated to be inaccurate, misleading and falsified records, together with a defamatory profile caused by this abrupt, unnatural and damaging expulsion, that disregarded my welfare and my Rights under the "Convention on the Rights of the Child". I was just eleven years old.
Since then, there hasn't been one application form with regards to my education, which would not go on to ask if I had ever been expelled. Roedean will know their indefensible actions will have marked me for life from such a young age, without my understanding or of having done anything wrong.
Yes, this is my story, and I am not hiding behind anyone to tell it. For want of the school to do the proper thing and make a public apology to me in order to restore my standing in the community I grew up in, I have to tell this story. This unnatural and cruelly timed expulsion has gone on to sully my good reputation with rumors which to date have put my sudden disappearance down to some very outrageous and corrosive claims, a dynamic that has brought some associated with Roedean into attempting to intimidate me as a potential key witness. (an example here, it's senders laptop accounted for).
It is very sad to find what my parents had believed to be an exemplary school for me, now a school I see finding it far easier and more suiting to continue to cower behind the ferment that was fostered by the expulsion in leaving some very tough questions unanswered, than to behave in an appropriate manner I believe most parents would expect from any school.
I was the quintessential Roedean Girl. But by the time I was removed I can look back and say for me there wasn’t much which stood up for being the promise Roedean I see continues to spin. So this site is not about the school, it's people or it's culture. It's too disappointing for me to comment. No, the intention of this site, in it's homage to Terence Rattigan's play "The Winslow Boy", is to 'let right be done', and to show there was no justification for what the school Roedean had done to me. In the absence of the schools apology, or an explanation and response to my parent's findings, this site will go a little way to making myself feel whole again in my community, to help restore my profile, and will strongly signal to those who have done this to me, they have not succeeded in snuffing my "sparkle" out. |
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