Bastille Day 2007
I havent stormed any Bastilles this year but more importantly I cant believe it is July already. I have continued my attempts to change the stigma around families and drug use. I spoke at a FADNET Conference in June about social isolation and families, how by being shunned by family, friends and the community the family suffers further and is quite debilitated.
To add to this shunning by the community the following will highlight what I mean.
I was disappointed to hear from my solicitors that I have no case against the Victorian Education department. I had been a teacher for 34 years in a range of settings. I was teaching at Tally Ho Boys Home in Burwood Victoria in 1982, I was 7 months pregnant and a 17 year old detainee grabbed me and held a knife to my throat and try to stab the baby for two hours. As a result I suffer PTSD, he was high on petrol, his drug of choice. I received no help from the Education department. I returned to teaching to support my family nine years later. In 2001 I was a senior policy officer of the Student Welfare branch. I trained teachers, I wrote a parent Education program Talking Tactics together, and was well respected. The manager of Eastern Region Ross Kimber was demoted to eastern region from Head office[poor performance] and needed help to adjust which I and other staff willingly helped him with.
He claimed to be a devoted Christian...despite our government schools being non secular....and often told us about his church activities, his wife was also a teacher..my son was arrested for drug related activities and my caring manager Ross Kimber sent me a letter in the mail dismissing me while I was on annual leave.----this man did not have the courage oor integrity to speak to me personally.....it was me who advised the office of my sons arrest....the reason he believed or decided I was a drug dealer!! Heaven forbid and this man was supposed to be intelligent and a leader. His actions the following day by assigning Cheryl Judd to deliver his instructions to me that is sending me back into a classroom where he knew from our phone conversations with me I could not teach because of the knife attack and subsequent PTSD sent me into an unwell state of PTSD. {this is all an accepted workcover claim...I had returned to work after treatment and as my manager was aware of this}
this is why I fight so hard to defend families, it is hard enough to have a child using drugs but to be punished by your employer of 34 years, the welfare branch....stop laughing your taxes pay for this branch to support students in schools, and to be deliberately harmed by them is unforgiveable. I heard that Ross is sick, Cheryl Judd got a sideways shift, Sue Tait got booted to the country....Gippsland so perhaps sometimes justice happens but not in the way we anticipate. Vicki Augustinus from the Complaints unit felt I quite deserved to be treated this way/dismissed because I did have a son using drugs!!!
I will find a way to make it known the way some people work to protect themselves, Ross Kimber may never be a regional manager again or in charge of the education of children but his lack of integrity will be exposed...by his own actions over and over and I will continue to ask for support for families.
Lighter note I went to the footy last week with my daughter we had a ball.
Next weekend I am hoping to go and see The Retro Bandits or the Substitutes play at one of the RSLS both great bands for our generation.
I would rather dance than be wiser x
To add to this shunning by the community the following will highlight what I mean.
I was disappointed to hear from my solicitors that I have no case against the Victorian Education department. I had been a teacher for 34 years in a range of settings. I was teaching at Tally Ho Boys Home in Burwood Victoria in 1982, I was 7 months pregnant and a 17 year old detainee grabbed me and held a knife to my throat and try to stab the baby for two hours. As a result I suffer PTSD, he was high on petrol, his drug of choice. I received no help from the Education department. I returned to teaching to support my family nine years later. In 2001 I was a senior policy officer of the Student Welfare branch. I trained teachers, I wrote a parent Education program Talking Tactics together, and was well respected. The manager of Eastern Region Ross Kimber was demoted to eastern region from Head office[poor performance] and needed help to adjust which I and other staff willingly helped him with.
He claimed to be a devoted Christian...despite our government schools being non secular....and often told us about his church activities, his wife was also a teacher..my son was arrested for drug related activities and my caring manager Ross Kimber sent me a letter in the mail dismissing me while I was on annual leave.----this man did not have the courage oor integrity to speak to me personally.....it was me who advised the office of my sons arrest....the reason he believed or decided I was a drug dealer!! Heaven forbid and this man was supposed to be intelligent and a leader. His actions the following day by assigning Cheryl Judd to deliver his instructions to me that is sending me back into a classroom where he knew from our phone conversations with me I could not teach because of the knife attack and subsequent PTSD sent me into an unwell state of PTSD. {this is all an accepted workcover claim...I had returned to work after treatment and as my manager was aware of this}
this is why I fight so hard to defend families, it is hard enough to have a child using drugs but to be punished by your employer of 34 years, the welfare branch....stop laughing your taxes pay for this branch to support students in schools, and to be deliberately harmed by them is unforgiveable. I heard that Ross is sick, Cheryl Judd got a sideways shift, Sue Tait got booted to the country....Gippsland so perhaps sometimes justice happens but not in the way we anticipate. Vicki Augustinus from the Complaints unit felt I quite deserved to be treated this way/dismissed because I did have a son using drugs!!!
I will find a way to make it known the way some people work to protect themselves, Ross Kimber may never be a regional manager again or in charge of the education of children but his lack of integrity will be exposed...by his own actions over and over and I will continue to ask for support for families.
Lighter note I went to the footy last week with my daughter we had a ball.
Next weekend I am hoping to go and see The Retro Bandits or the Substitutes play at one of the RSLS both great bands for our generation.
I would rather dance than be wiser x
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