"Belly telling somebody to accept being treated like rubbish and telling them to let the matter go when they have been systematically victimised and discriminated against year after year isn't supporting them."

Posted by Jolanda, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 4:04:02 PM

Yeah, and all these kids being raped, tortured, abused, prostituted for their parents drugs are worthy of screaming attention. I will donate if I thought that money would help a child in desperate need. I haven't seen anything that I would consider as proof of this 'major injustice' on your kids who quite obviously have a mother who cares and seemingly are very intelligent themselves.

It's all about perspective, Jolanda. You will survive. Your kids will survive. Teaching your kids to lay on the ground and throw the biggest tanty if they don't get what they think they are owed is wrong.

No, you're right, I don't have much sympathy because at work I see kids sucking on bottles of WD40 and spray paint all the time. THAT is my perspective.

Jolanda,
I must say that I agree with posters such as Bronwyn and PALE. Sometimes it's just best to move beyond disappointments and make the best of what you have.
Then again, I'm not you.

Anyway, although this is about NSW, I wonder if you have seen this article which may provide some hope, because if the NSW dept regards it important that parents are provided with test results then other state dept may be willing to be more lenient about providing results, too.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/selective-schools-offers-come-with-a-benchmark/2008/07/04/1214951042635.html

"PRIMARY school students seeking entry to selective high schools will now receive details of their mark and how it compares to others around the state along with their notice of acceptance"

"Until now, students received only official notice of either an offer or rejection. Parents who took the initiative could seek out their children's results in the test.

From this year, all parents will be notified of their child's score alongside the top mark"

"For the first time this year, the outcome advice of the selective high school placement test provides parents with the profile score achieved by the student."

STG there are many children who are neglected and who are treated unfairly. Often their cries for help and/or their parents/guardians cries for help are ignored because of a process the system has set up to cover up complaints against Government Departments and even adults.

My children might not have been sexually or physically abused but they were bullied and psychologically abused and purposely educationally neglected. I do not think that one should have to achieve such lows as you present in order to get justice, sympathy and protection.

All complaints that involve the welfare, wellbeing and protection of children should be investigated by indepedant and impartial persons so as to ensure that children are protected.

Thanks Celivia for your link. I haven't had a problem getting an actual test mark from the DET, what I have had trouble is getting the details from the company who marks the tests and actually being able to verify the marks with original documents as the DET destroyed the originals and the company who marks the test will not give me direct access to the information in their possession. We have evidence of manipulation in documents and tampering of marks produced under FOI involving a number of my children for different years and we know for a fact that the DET can alter or change the marks before they import them into their computer just by entering a password. That state of affairs needs to be changed.

I would support Belly's remark that anyone who has not done so should refrain from commenting until they have read through Jolanda's comment history and see the frequency with which she starts threads such as this.

Perhaps they should also read through her website and evaluate the so-called evidence.

Or perhaps google her name and see how many times she has been offered the same well-meaning advice by people such as DreamOn.

jolanda, you have a right to ask. well, a privilege, actually. they could take it away from you, so it's a privilege. and you have asked.

you don't have a right to an answer. nor even a privilege. citizens have rights, in a democracy, but you're a subject, in a monarchy.

at a guess, you'd vote against the establishment of a 'democratic republic of australia',as most ozzies would, poor souls. well, if you let your self be ruled by bureaucrats and politicians, this is the down-side. could be worse, in china they wouldn't answer you.

What Kassie said. There's a pattern.

Jolanda posts another version of the same post as all the others and a few respond sympathetically. Regulars know better. Jolanda responds to regulars with outrage and to new sympathisers with circular reasoning as to why their suggestions won't work. A few weeks later another Jolanda-the-victim post appears and the pattern repeats. It's like watching the same episode of a serial drama over and over.

Still, if there's nothing else on...