CEO Swale Trust is Teflon

Below is article I wrote on Facebook few days ago see the comments especially the last comment about the CEO. This man name crops up time and time yet he is never investigated WHY?

More Problems at Westland’s

I have now put 2 articles on Facebook and on my Blog concerning Bullying at Westland’s School the two articles attracted over 220 comments mainly about students been bullied. Now I have just been told about a dangerous case of bullying. A friend of mine son’s was threatened with a knife and was encourage by a friend of the attacker to knife him or in the words of the boy “Shank Him”
Needless to say he went to see the Headmaster Mr Cox who responded that they never had a knifing in the School and the knife was only a fishing knife. The father retorted a knife is a knife and can still kill, the father went on to ask about the boy who said shank him. The Head said that this boy has psychological problem and he fantasied about violence and would draw pictures of people being stabbed in the eye. He was only a fantasist, yet nothing was done about him. My friend got extremely angry and threatened to contact the Police, the reply was go ahead who cares. He stormed out the Office but sadly did not contact the Police.
Now my information is second hand but my friend is prepared to give his name and the names of the two boys if the school deny this. It time the School took responsibility of the safety of their pupils. Sorry to say the Schools Management never respond to these accusation

When will Ofsted and other authorities start to investigate the Management of Westland’s which has major problems and that has to be due to bad management, the person responsible for that management is Jon Whitcombe CEO Swale Academies Trust, I am in no way connected to Westland’s or the Trust but one has to ask the question is the CEO position in the Trust still tenable?

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Paul Lewis Why is this on Facebook, but has not been reported to the Police ? Get your priorities right people, The POLICE are paid to prevent and detect crime, Facebook only serves to publicise it !

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Marc Stelfox It's about time parents started to take responsibility for their kids actions instead of expecting everyone else to parent them. Bullying has always, and always will be present and is nigh on impossible to eradicate. I know first hand the lack of respe...See more

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Martin William Clarke It is the management of the school who are at fault as well as the bullies parents. I agree parents should take responsibility but we in a society where everyone else is to blame

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Pete Mandy Obrien I had the police up the school about my child, Mr Cox spoke to them and stopped them from talking to the bullies. I have been up the school and seen police walking round the school after something went on at Westlands. Martin iv sent you pm.

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Pete Mandy Obrien Think you will find Mr Cox is is on the board of governors so its no good complaining to them. I tried to record a meeting i had with him once he refused to go ahead with meeting if i record it. To me i would say he had something to hide.

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Martin William Clarke Of Course they have something to hide I sent this report to Newspapers, Mp. Leader of Council KEC Department of Education Ofsted see what happens?

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Pete Mandy Obrien I would talk to the papers after the way my child has been treated by the school, my daughter would ring me if she had problems, the teachers started on her for ringing me when she was being bullied, one time a teacher told my child there are other schools you can go to. They have a sort of safe room there my child could go to but the bullies would still get to her in there.

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Cathryn Bunyan I went to school with a lad years ago who was quiet, but had clear psychological problems and would draw pictures fantasizing about killing and murder I later heard from another school friend. He then went on to plan and actually murder one of his frie...See more

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Martin William Clarke A 7 year old does not not know or understand what a homosexual or lesbian really is. The Gay people in this country is 1.5% yet the state including school want you to highlight there cause yet the protection of School Children from Bullying is ignored

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Martin William Clarke Paul Lewis Do the Police do anything. You are right Facebook does publicise problems which is good How many Newspapers etc have publicised the Bullying NONE So do we ignore the problem because the establishment do not want to acknowledge the problem?

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Paul Lewis Never ignore problems, my point is the first port of call when a crime is committed MUST be the Police. With regards to the school not "ALLOWING" the Police to investigate a crime ? That is CRAP and certainly is not acceptable.

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Lisa Jayne Green If a child brings a knife into school they should be immediately expelled, and encouraging someone to stab someone should be treated just as seriously 😡

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Rob John I child is never going to Westlands or SCC. I will do my best to get out of these catchment areas!

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Cathryn Bunyan The catchment area changes from year to year. Fulstons cut of the year before last was Bell road :-/

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Karen S Higgins Fulston is just as bad ... get the police involved like I did and yes the police took it seriously ... the school has no choice but to deal with the incident when they're involved

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Jo Dollimore I have said before and must agree with a previous comment- Mr John whitcombe is the one who needs to be pulled up and questioned. He is it seems one of the untouchables.
For a salary of over £180.00 this man runs a business. He doesn't care about the way the schools are looking after the pupils.
He is just building a little empire that he can Over see with as little connection with the reality of school life as possible.

http://m.ashfordherald.co.uk/.../story.../story.html

Interesting read.

​The North School head's salary was raised 25 per cent over two years

ASHFORDHERALD.CO.UK

Letter to Khizr Khan

An Open Letter to Khizr Khan July 31, 2016

Posted by Chris Mark in Uncategorized. 
Tags: Army, DNC, Humayan, Kahn, Khizr, Muslims, Navy, Trump, USMC
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Dear Mr. Khan,

I want to preface this letter by stating that I respect your son’s sacrifice for this great nation.  By all accounts, he is a true hero that sacrificed himself in service to our country. For that I am thankful.

As a veteran, I watched your comments at the Democratic National Convention with a mixture of sadness, and anger.  The United States has a military comprised of volunteers.  Every single member has made the conscious choice to join the military and serve.  There is not a single service member who has been forced into service.  It is important for all service members (and apparently, their families) to understand that service to this great nation does not imbue one with special privileges or rights.  I found your comments troubling when you said: “Have you ever been to Arlington cemetery? Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending the United States of America. You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”

Does it matter whether Mr. Trump has sacrificed “…nothing and no one?”…has Ms. Clinton “..sacrificed” for this nation?  How about Mr. Obama?   Your comment stating that Mr. Trump “…has sacrifice no one” is alarming.  Are you intimating that YOU sacrificed?  Sir, your son willingly sacrificed himself.   As a father I cannot imagine the pain you must feel but his sacrifice is his own.  He was not forced to serve.

I am troubled that you would allow a party that has little more than contempt for the US Service Member to parade you into the DNC to denounce Donald Trump.  Did you watch when protesters at the DNC booed and heckled Medal of Honor recipient  Capt. Florent Groberg? Did you notice your party interrupting the moment of silence for slain police officers?  Your own hypocrisy in not denouncing these acts and instead using the DNC as a platform to make a political point is disgraceful.  The simple fact is that whether one served or sacrificed does not give greater power to their statements.  One vote is as valuable as another.  That sir, is why our Country is great.  Your condemnation of one person for a statement while standing idly as your party disparages veterans and police officers is the height of hypocrisy.

To conflate the need to prevent potential terrorists from entering our country with the belief that ‘all Muslims’ should be banned is simply wrong and disingenuous. As a reminder, Mr. Trump said: ” “Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,”The irony of your son’s own death at the hands of these very people in Iraq should not be ignored.  I have little doubt that your son would have recognized the need to protect our country from these very people.  In fact, he held is own troops back so that he could check on a suspicious car.  Your son understood sacrifice and how to protect “his people”…’his soldiers’….’his fellow Americans’…

As you continue to make the media circuit and bask in the glow of affection cast upon you by a party that has little regard for your son’s own sacrifice, and veterans in general, I would ask you to consider your comments and your position more closely.

Respectfully,

Chris Mark

US Marine and Navy Veteran.