Standing up for what you believe in
well, but I wasn’t 100 per cent comfortable with the line that goes like this: ‘‘That’s not how our process works, Mrs Giltrap.’’
That’s when I got the distinct feeling that being threatened isn’t really grounds for action, simply because they can’t prove the threat was given.
Which is how most of the thugs and bullies in society today get off their inexcusable neanderthal behaviour, it all comes down to one person’s word against another and if you can lie bare-faced you will be deemed innocent.
My daughter looked like she wanted to be sick with fear then burst into tears, so I did the only thing I could do short of putting her back in the ute and bringing her home again to hide.
I had to speak up.
In short, it went like this: If anyone touches a hair on my kid’s head in these school grounds I will be back and the police will come with me.
Here’s the thing, every child has the God-given right to go to school and feel safe in those school grounds, it’s that simple, and every parent has the right to stand up for that.
If the people in charge of the school body cannot ensure that happens then, as parents, we have to stand up to protect our children from that sort of behaviour by involving the law.
The politically correct brigade will tell me I’m now the bully for delivering my own threat and, if that’s the case, it only amplifies the problem we have in our society today.