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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After two long and grueling weeks of this pot-stirring nonsense, it should be abundantly obvious that whatever point you've been trying to make here is long lost and [b]everyone but you has moved on.[/b]

I seriously, SERIOUSLY doubt there's still a bonafide issue or concern among the kids.  Seriously, I DOUBT any of your own kids have a concern about it, nor have any of you recently had a conversation with anyone who has.  Because if you had, then why didn't you set them straight, since you the facts and should know better.  Or, instead, did you irresponsibly and dishonestly just stir the pot with them?  [b]That question was dodged above.[/b]  So, where's the REAL problem here?

But more to the point - Even if there were at this point a [b]pointless apology by the Head of School and Dean or whatever else[/b], I'm also at this point convinced that the  ranter would only move on to continue ranting about the next trivial thing to come along.  Because that's DEFINITELY the sense I get here.

I frankly think your credibility is suspect, I think your motives are suspect, and I don't think you can be trusted to not keep stirring the pot with everything and anything, particularly given the way this has been grotesquely blown out of proportion, with every last thing attacked, skewed, distorted and nitpicked to death at every step.[/quote]

As one of the people who originally addressed this issue when it was first raised, intending only to attest to genuine fear and confusion on the parts of parents and children, and then became absolutely infuriated when that fear and confusion was ridiculed here by fellow Basis parents, I just want to say that I do not believe a single parent who has been participating in ongoing conversations with a variety of real people (not on DCUM), has done anything but have their kids reassure their classmates and attempt to alleviate the confusion of the parents involved in the incident in question.  The vitriol being spewed here about how there should have been no confusion in the first place does not and cannot alter that simple fact.  [b]I refuse to believe that a single Basis parent would knowingly increase the anxieties of any child or parent involved in this unfortunate incident. I know of no one who has, and I do not believe that any Basis parent could possibly be that evil.[/b]  And although the first grading period ends soon, I am not in agreement with the idea that  apologies would be "pointless," however belated.  They are owed, they should be offered, and students can dismiss them as "that was so last week" but I believe at least some would appreciate the effort.  Especially if it does not appear pro forma.  The same way you make a miscreant on the playground apologise for malfeasance, notwithstanding the fact that the child stands there defiantly unrepentant, and smirks while he offers his apology, these men need to do it.  Until these two men admit to making an error and then not doing what was necessary to cure it, e.g. apologising immediately and doing backsies, this community will not genuinely move on.

But to be quite frank, I think your credibility and motives are suspect, because as much as you say everyone has moved on except the mysterious ranter and pot stirrer and crazy lady, you, and another recognisable poster (aka insulting our intelligence), and others, clearly have not moved on.  Are you angry at your spouses?  Are you off your meds?  Do you need to adjust your foil hat?  All of you are behaving absolutely disgracefully and my sincere although not polite advice is that you all shut up.[/quote]

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