Break Fast Time

Chris Roynon and Rev Sian Yates fail to respond to Hunger Striker after 23 days on raw-juice in Mousehole School capitalist take-over stand-off, summer 2016 - latest.

The 'forced-academisation programme' that's being rolled out across the world always reminds me of a land-rush, a nineteenth-century colonial phenomenon in which colonists would race into a 'new' territory, eager to carve out the best bits of turf for themselves (having stolen it from the original owners, of course).  The stakes were high, competition was fierce and this frequently led to behaviour that was less than scrupulously honest, to say the least.

When the educational gold-rush rolled into our little town I tried to fight it, as I thought it was a cynical plan to run schools as businesses and pit them against each other in a sort of pseudo-Darwinian competition for resources that should be readily available to all schools.

Mousehole School is well thought-of in the area, like all schools and there seemed no reason why it should be forced to be something that people did not want it to be.  Sadly, my attempts to set up a genuine dialogue with those involved, for example head teacher Chris Roynon, or the secretary of the school, Nigel Carter-King, or even the vicar of Penzance, the Reverend Sian Yates, who sits on the board of directors of Penlee 'Academy' 'Trust', the 'chain' that 'oversees' 'academies' in the West Penwith area of Cornwall, met with a brick wall.  With a series of refusals, delays, evasions and further delays the 'public consultation period' was frittered away fruitlessly.  The whole sorry tale appears in previous blogposts and issues of The Limpet.  These people were determined not to engage with me in conversation.  The vicar just totally failed to respond to letters and emails - no response whatsoever.  

Finally, with time running out fast I decided to do just that and went on one - a fast that is.  After a final appeal was spurned, I declared a state of hunger-strike until dialogue was commenced.  I lived on raw plant juice for three weeks and two days.  At the beginning of this little adventure I had naively assumed that my tactic would bring some kind of result fairly rapidly.  How wrong I was.  I'd kind of given up on getting any response from Nigel, even though he is a governor, and an employee of the school, who has been aware of the 'academy' agenda for years.  I suppose I thought Chris would eventually hold out some sort of token gesture, or that Sian, as a woman of 'God' would perhaps respond out of some kind of Christian attitude, or some such thing.  After 23 days on the juice-fast there was no response whatsoever from any of them (apart from the aforementioned bicycle adventure/free speech clash with Chris!)  It was obvious that these folks were not going to respond at all, and having felt that they'd had their pound of flesh, I decided that that banana lying in the fruit-bowl looked pretty good...  followed by various other foodstuffs that also took on a curious aura of attraction.  

I felt that I'd done what I could and that they couldn't have beat me in a fair fight, but this is about money, so expecting fair treatment is again the mark of naivety.  

So the land-rush rolls into town and another bastion of culture becomes commodified and 'procured' by the capitalist victors.  But hey, look on the bright side - Burger King will be sponsoring the new ping-pong rackets...

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Limpet Speaks Truth In Hunger Strike Conflict

7 DAYS OF HUNGER-STRIKE GETS ZERO RESPONSE FROM REV SIAN YATES, CHRIS ROYNON, NIGEL CARTER-KING, IN MOUSEHOLE SCHOOL DEBACLE.
JUST TO CLARIFY...   The basic game being played here is evasion.  Stalling, to use up the 'consultation time'.  This is done by replying late, if at all, to letters, then failing to answer the questions originally asked.  This initiates another letter and more time wasted... cynical, cyclical and futile. 
Chris Roynon to Jeremy Schanche, 5th May 2016, excerpt:  "As discussed, I decline your offer of a public debate.  I do not think it appropriate to debate with a self elected spokesperson.  If you wish, I can arrange for a member of staff to minute any meeting we have and, subject to us all agreeing the minutes, you can use them as you wish." 

Jeremy Schanche To Chris Roynon, 6th May 2016, excerpt:  "Openness and Transparency:  As regards the recording of open dialogue, it works like this:  Each party swears to be truthful.  Each party makes their own recording in whatsoever form they chose.  Each party is free to publish the entire unedited debate in any media.  If any party believes their words have been misquoted or misrepresented, they take action.  This is the basis on which Derek Thomas has asked me for a debate, and it is standard operating procedure in public life.  The debate over the future of Mousehole School will take place in public.  All attempts to stifle and suppress that debate will undermine your case."

{I recently had that debate with Derek Thomas MP and it can be seen here:

http://savetheholyheadland.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/jeremy-schanche-derek-thomas-mp-limpet.html   I appreciate Derek giving me the time for a one hour interview, with no 'terms or conditions' necessary.  He was happy to stand up (metaphorically) in public and spontaneously speak his mind, on the public record and on youtube.  If only all public officials were so fearless...}

I wrote to Rev Sian Yates, Vicar of Protestant Penzance and Managing Director of the persona ficta Penlee 'Academy' 'Trust' on 10th May, posing her some questions.  To this day, she has not answered me or responded in any form whatsoever.  {Matthew 22: 36-40:}  

On 26 May 2016 I wrote to Sian Yates, Chris Roynon and Nigel Carter-King (Secretary/Governor Mousehole School) asking them to at least swear that procedure had been carried out in full accordance with the law.  Curiously, no-one would give such a promise!  

My letter to Chris Roynon of 9th June was never answered at all.

 On 14th June, I again wrote to Chris Roynon and pointed out that due to delays from MSG and CC FOI Office, who referred almost all my questions back to Mousehole School, I was in the absurd position of beginning my enquiries on the last day of my 'official' right to do so.  I requested that the 'public consultation-period' be extended to give me a chance to start asking some questions.

A week later, on 21st June, Chris told me that they would not extend the consultation-period.  

On 7th July, I posted two dozen (24) posters outside the gates of Mousehole School and around the area.  (This was meant to coincide sympathetically with the Teachers' Strike, but I got the day wrong!  Hey ho, that what happens when you don't follow mass-media so much...)   I also sent Chris a declaration on 7 July, saying that if he wouldn't meet me for a talk within a week I would be forced to take 'industrial action'.  Surely this is the voice of a man who wants to talk to another man..  I've spent countless unpaid hours on this case that could have been spent elsewhere.  All my attempts to communicate with MSG/PAT are on this blog.  I swear that I've been sincerely trying to open a dialogue since 21st April and the evidence is there to prove it, as blog is my witness.  

Chris Roynon's response to this final, heartfelt appeal from me for dialogue  was to totally ignore it and utterly fail to respond to me in any way whatsoever.  According to Chris though, he's been willing to talk to me all along!  

On July 18th, having still had no response from the elusive Chris, I put out a statement to MSG/PAT that I had started a hunger-strike on July 15th, and would uphold the strike  until they were ready to start talking:  http://savetheholyheadland.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/hunger-strike-mousehole-school-2016.html   In my naivete I imagined that I'd get a phone-call in the next day or so, saying 'why not drop in for a chat', but after seven days on hunger-strike, Chris is continuing his inflexible policy of ignoring me.  This suits his purpose, after all, why do you think they call it 'forced academisation'?  What advantage could he or Sian derive from talking to me?  How would it help forward their plan?  

On Thursday 21st July, The Cornishman printed their piece about my Hunger Strike.   Sadly, they didn't mention the fact that some of the Board of Directors of PAT are multi-millionaire trawler-owners - and this is nothing to do with money, right?   Having read in our local paper that Chris is now claiming he's 'open' to talk to me, I emailed him at 11:24am today, asking him to make contact with me.  Chris knows I've been on Hunger Strike for a week now, and knows I'm desperate to talk to him.  Did he bother to lift his phone and call my mobile or home number?  No.  Did he put a note in my child's book-bag, saying he'd love to meet and talk?  No.  Did he email me?  No.  The ignorance continues.  It is obvious to any critically thinking person whos's studied the evidence, that Chris Roynon, Sian Yates, and all, have no wish to talk to me whatsoever.  Chris Roynon's implication in The Cornishman that it's me who's declining dialogue is ridiculous, cynical and perhaps a little calous, under the circumstances - still, there is money at stake here...  

Tomorrow is the last day of term.  The forces of business and 'academisation' are totally determined to push ahead and 'academise' Mousehole School by September, when the holiday is over and the children return to school.  Chris' tactics have totally undermined any attempt at discussion, investigation, representation etc.  I'm after some proper process in this case.  Apparently MSG voted in March to push for 'academisation'.  Legally the parent-governors are tasked with representing the wishes of the parents and community.  To fulfill this duty they would have needed to establish the views of the parents by ballot before taking the decision any further.  MSG failed to do this public duty.  Chris and Sian still ain't talking, time is getting late and I'm getting a tad peckish.....

http://www.cornishman.co.uk/parent-on-solid-food-strike-as-mousehole-school-plans-move-to-academy/story-29532265-detail/story.html

Email To: Chris Roynon, Head Teacher, Mousehole Primary School, Cornwall, Britain. 21.7.2016    11;24am 

Dear Chris,

I've just seen in the paper that you claim you want to meet me and talk.  Curiously, I feel the same.  Perhaps you would like to approach me and propose a possible time when we can all get together with our representatives and finally begin the democratic process.

You know how to reach me.

Bon appetite!

Jeremy

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Email To: Hazel Murray, Reporter, The Cornishman, Penzance, Cornwall, 21.7.2016  (Day 7)

Dear Hazel,

I have to be honest and say I wasn't happy with the article.  The headline dilutes the impact of the strike by renaming it 'No solids', as opposed to 'Hunger', which is actually what it is.  In para one "hunger strike" is put in inverted commas, this implies a relativity to the use of the term.  Para three says I struck because Mousehole plans to join Penlee 'Academy' 'Trust' - this is false.  I struck because MSG (Mousehole School Governors) and PAT are failing to respond to me.  With time ticking away and MSG/PAT totally ignoring me, I had to make a move, an attempt to break this absurd stalemate.

I didn't actually set up the Mousehole School Preservation Society, it's merely a label to help people find my campaign on the internet.  

It's not The Cornishman's fault however, that you printed a false statement from Chris Roynon.  He claims I was verbally offered a meeting.  This is false.  

Initially I offered him a meeting, which he declined, as I was proposing a serious formal debate for the public record, youtube etc.  He didn't want to do that.  When I suggested that I could set up some public meetings for discussion, he dismissed the idea sarcastically, accusing me of trying to be a 'self-elected spokesperson', rather than a democrat trying to initiate dialogue which is how I see my role in this.  Eventually, he counter-proposed a meeting on ridiculous terms - they were not happy for me to simply go and have a recorded discussion.  They wanted editorial control over the discussion and were not happy for me to freely record and print verbatim what was said.  I then replied to Chris and the 'governors', again proposing discussion, but this has never been responded to in any meaningful way.  All the evidence is on my blog.

 Who gets the last word in a newspaper article carries a lot of weight.  In the article about the anti-nuclear demo, The Cornishman gives the last word to tory MP Derek Thomas, who sees the atom bomb as a tool for peace.    In our 'no solids' article, the last word is given to Chris, and the last sentence is false.

Funilly enough, I started my own paper, The Limpet, after I read the first article by The Cornishman describing a demo I'd put on for Save The Holy Headland.  I felt the article trivialized the action.  This makes it very easy for typical readers to form a negative image of an action and ridicule it.  

Well, sorry to be so negative about the article, but at least I'm being honest.  

Best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Jeremy

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Oh yes, this just in:  a story about a Head Teacher and CEO of an 'academy' chain who's done a runner when an investigation was started into his activities, what a coincidence..
http://www.westbriton.co.uk/xxxxx/story-29537019-detail/story.html

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Update:  22.7.2016:  Today being the last day of the school term, I thought I'd see if it was possible to communicate with Chris Roynon.  I rang Mousehole School at 11:28 and heard the taped voice of Nigel Carter-King, inviting me to leave a message and assuring me that I would be responded to.
The funny thing is though, that although I waited, the response never came.  I guess that's the cherry on top of the cake...  In the depths of my soul, I somehow feel that Chris doesn't really want to talk to me.  Perhaps this will be taken as final proof.  Well, either way, the strike goes on.  :-)

Yn Skol Porennis, Gorthewer Me 12, 2016 - Klapp Meur Hudel - (Not to mention Mousehole School Preservation Society)

Well I got in from the fields, bolted down some hot chips and jumped on my bike without so much as a cup of tea to hydrate the carbo - I was in a hurry. I warm-footed it through Newlyn, past the old chy of William Lovett, our local hero and a godlike figure to libertarian types.  In his day he was top of the charts… but I hurried on,  I was going to Mousehole, a medium-sized city in West Penwith famous for Dolly Pentreath, a wild Keltek babbler and Ysgwier Keygwyn, an old-style blood and fire aristocrat who utterly refused to speak the Spaynek tongue and paid dear for it.                               

The 'public consultation' meeting to ostensibly discuss the future of our school had been set for 6.00pm, in consideration of those families with small children to feed and settle down for the night.  Despite being asked to text the parents, and despite the parents being virtually cyber-stalked with text-messages about cake-stalls and quizzes, it was not deemed expedient by the governing krats to text the parents about a trivial thing like a public meeting on the future of the school.  I arrived a little late and walked into a packed house (only kidding).  I made a conservative head-count (as it were) and estimated 30 - 35 attendees.  But on closer inspection, I think it was more like 31.  I sat in the front row with some smart folks and tried to turn my attention to what Chris Roynon, the head-teacher, was saying.  He had a chart of ‘head-lines’ and was ‘myth-busting’ - rather like what happened at the last P.C. I attended some years back.  The technique is to anticipate the arguments of the ‘opposition’ and publicly destroy them one by one, thereby winning the argument with a consumate and debonair flourish.  I turned on my wire-machine, but have to admit that after a few minutes I turned it off to save batteries.  I was hoping for some good copy, something old Brennigenn would have approved of…  Anyway, the minutes ticked by and I was all psyched up to talk before a big meeting so I was feeling kinda restless, like a feral cat in a Fun House.  I thought I’d try my hand at doing some ‘court-room’ style sketches of some of the main actors.  I tried to catch the energy of the event, the sort of stilted, sluggish, formal formalism of it, or, to be brutally honest, the sheer, dull, irrelevance and uninspiring atmosphere (not totally uninspiring) and the lack of debate left me feeling like I was watching the ritual of a tribe that came from very, very far away.  Perhaps there was some mutuality to that.  Anyway, Chris spoke at length and debunked every extant ‘myth’ and a few that have yet to be spaketh.  A few other people said a couple of things and points were made, but the conversation never once broke through into anything like spontaneity.  This ‘education expert’ bloke kept going on and on and on and on and on and after a while I realized why 89 per cent of the parents had had the wisdom to stay at home and enjoy a delicious and leisurely dinner in the bosom of their respective families.  Oh lucky people!  After a while, there was a clearing in the word-thicket so I seized my chance and asked the folks present whether they would mind if I addressed the meeting for five minutes.  After securing public consent,  I sashayed up front and took a nice comfy chair, facing da people.  For about five minutes I poured it on, (actually it was 9:36 - Ed.) then I thanked the small but dedicated crowd and returned to my seat.  I tried to stick around to hear the rest of the meeting, but frankly, as I said to the folks there - “I came here for a public meeting - where is everyone?”  and I felt that I’d said my bit and simply could not bear to sit there any longer when I had so much to do.  Within ten minutes I was sitting on a rock, gazing out to sea, feeling curiously happy.

I’ll now give a transcription of my little verbal message to the Mousehole academic community.  I have to say also that there were some quite humorous moments in the meeting - particularly when one lady asked “is there going to be a vote?” (on whether or not to ‘academise’ the old school)  I couldn’t suppress a titter.  Who can?  After a long and somewhat pregnant pause, Chris and the ‘education expert’ both said ‘no’.  When I thought about it afterwards as I sat on the rocks, I laughed mirthfully at the quaint,  delicate and ephemeral human drama of it all and the form in which it is all cast.  Atoms oscillate between waves and particles and the stream of consciousness laps it all up.  Rantscription follows:

"Well, my name’s Jeremy Schanche, I’m a parent, I’ve got a five-year-old girl here.  I’ve also got a connection that goes back to the last century when my son went here.  He was actually removed from this school against my will.  I told Nigel that I was very happy with Mousehole School at the time - I had no complaints whatsoever, I wanted my son to stay there - that’s history…  My point is I’m very happy with Mousehole School as it is and I’ve got some extremely deep objections to the proposed ‘academisation’ which are actually rather too deep and complex to explain to you all at this moment and that’s not the purpose of this meeting, so what I’m here to tell you, I’m basically, as I expect some of you might know, I’m campaigning against ‘academisation’ - well, before I say ‘academisation’ I just want to make a little note - this is a place of education where people learn English, where people learn to speak and to become people in the adult, in the real world.  In my opinion the meaning of words is very very important.  When you start tinkering with the meaning of words you’re tinkering with culture with the language, things like that.  The word ‘academy’ means a very specific thing.  What’s being discussed here is not ‘academies’, OK?  The word ‘academy’, if you look in your dictionary, means ‘a school of specialised study’, OK?  For example a police academy, a military academy a science academy.  So, when you take the word ‘academy’ and use it in the context that we’re having here that’s a falsification of English.  That’s, actually in the dictionary that’s called ‘bastardisation’ of the language, OK?  So the first point, this entire debate is founded on a deception, OK, because we’re not talking about academies we’re talking about a fundamental change to the education system which has taken the label ‘academy’ because that word pushes a, er, a button.  It’s a cultural word, it goes back to Greece, it goes back to Socrates, Plato - well it goes back to Plato actually - Plato was taught by Socrates - he taught Aristotle, he taught Alexander the Great.  So if we’re going to talk about ‘academies’ we have to be on that kind of level - but it’s a false use of the word, so right away… anyway, that’s a linguistic detail, I know people aren’t interested in language -  perhaps.  

My purpose, what I want to say to you basically is I’m actively campaigning against ‘academisation’ (so called) for a number of deep and complex reasons which I’m very happy to explain to you if anybody would care to meet with me, perhaps in an ongoing series of public meetings, perhaps chaired by a neutral chair, perhaps designed by the public.  So you know, basically I’ve been in written communication with Chris and Nigel and I’ve addressed all the governors and I’m attempting to, er, from the beginning I’ve- you know, my message has been ‘I’d like to talk to people and try to have a civilized debate with people.’  I have to say the response so far has been very disappointing and basically sort of…  you know, I’ve spent a lot of time writing to politicians and I kinda know the style, you know?  Um, so, ya know, basically the other point I’d like to make is, this thing has been in the pipeline, it’s been, er, at various levels of preparation for four to five years and the community, parents and the public had approximately six months in which to, er, react to it, including in which to make a challenge to it.  If they feel, like I happen to feel, that, er, the whole ‘academisation’ agenda is a disaster to education.  It’s something - we don’t have, you know, time in this meeting to go into it, but it’s something I believe, well, it’s obviously a, you know, a political agenda, it’s coming from the right, it’s global - it’s not just Mousehole - it’s America, Europe, no doubt it’s the far east as well - it’s the modern World so it’s local, it’s also global.  My personal opinion is that it’s disastrous, it’s been presented to us as if - well we’ve been handed this ‘thing’  with  ‘here it is everybody, aren’t you glad?’  What if we’re not glad - what if I’m not the only- you know, I know there’s other people in this nation who aren’t happy with the ‘academy’ agenda and basically we’ve been- you know - you’ve had four years to prepare - we’ve got six months to mount a democratic challenge, if you like, a legal challenge, whatever means, you know, whatever peaceful, legal means we choose to resist this which is basically an imposition, somebody’s idea of policy - it’s not everybody’s idea of policy and I don’t think it should be imposed on this, or any other school, until it is proven that it is basically what the public want and I don’t think anyone here can prove that.  And basically, as I say, you know, I don’t wanna- I’ve said I don’t want to dominate the meeting, I don’t want to take more than my share of time, but I’m very interested to talk to anyone who is against ‘academisation’ and I want to resist it whole-heartedly in a fair, in an open democratic way.  All my communications with Chris are on the internet, Save The Holy Headland Blogspot, er, Mousehole School Preservation Society.  You can find all my letters, all the responses and lots of other little related details.  So if you’re against ‘academisation’ please talk to me - thank you."










http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Parent-critises-change-Mousehole-Primary-School/story-29200058-detail/story.html


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Mousehole School Preservation Society 2 The Roynon / Schanche Letters & Other Phenomenal Ephemera of The Void

Welcome to the public domain, the place where evidence hangs in space, awaiting inspection by the curious.  In this blog-post I'm putting up all the most recent correspondence I've had with various people over the fate of Mousehole School.  For overseas readers, people from beyond Britain's surf-splattered shores, I should explain that in my country, as elsewhere in the World, there is a battle going on over the schools.  There is a move to turn public education into something different, something that allows money-interests into the educational realm in a virulent fashion, something we have not seen before.  Essentially it's an attempted educational coup by blurry rightist forces who control the minds of the masses through fear, you know the kind of thing.....

 'St.Raffidy'

The earlier correspondence can be found here:
http://savetheholyheadland.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/mousehole-school-preservation-society.html
There might be the odd letter or document in here that has nothing to do with the Mousehole case.  It does not make sense to do a seperate blog-post for every single topic that comes up, so what you see is a chronological record of communications.  I will soon be publishing some material on other cases, such as that of Darren Rainey and Harold Hempstead.  In some ways, the more you get into politics, the more you realize the interconectedness of phenomena anyway.  Today I went to the Holy Headland to deliver a note to the vicar of St.Mary's Church, Penzance.  It was a request for people to pray for the Soul of Darren Rainey who was murdered by Florida prison guards.  I talked to a couple of very friendly people at the church and they were happy to take the request and pass it round the local churches.  They said it would be copied into two books of remembrance.  I said that the law in Florida was currently defining Mr Rainey's death as an accident but that I was one of the people who considered it to be torture and murder.  I said that if they had a problem with my murder accusation, they could leave that off and just have the name and dates of birth and death.  They were both adamant that the murder accusation should stand, if that was the way I wanted it, so it stands.  I also gave them a letter to pass on to the Reverend Sian Yates, Vicar of St.Mary's Church, Penzance, Cornwall.....  This time it was another topic, but also one with a deep spiritual element - the future development of children's minds.
Message to Mousehole School Governors (MSG) 3.5.2016

Apparently the following article at The Cornishman's site went up on May Day, 1st May 2016 - International Workers' Day - Inaugurated in memory of the Haymarket Martyrs of Chicago, 1886.  It was also the 100th anniversary of the international scattering of Joe Hill's ashes to the winds...  See previous blog-post, 'Socialism - A Great British Tradition' for articles on these events...

http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Parent-critises-change-Mousehole-Primary-School/story-29200058-detail/story.html

Letter to Nigel Carter-King, Administrator, Governor, Mousehole School, 3.5.2016

Don't forget the Windy City.....  http://www.ctunet.com/    Chicago Teachers' Union - Keepin' it Real.

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Letter from Chris Roynon, 5.5.2016

Letter to Chris Roynon, 6.5.2016

And now for something completely different:  An email to a Labour First supporter, Luke Akehurst:

From politics to religion, well, sort of: Letter to Sian Yates, Church of England Vicar, Penzance, 10.5.2016:

and finally, a letter of 10th May 2016 From Nigel Carter-King, Administrator and governor of Mousehole School, in which he sets out his answers to my questions of 3rd May, such as my request for the addresses and/or emails of all the governors (who represent me legally) and  my request to be informed of which unions were represented at the school:

So basically, according to Chris and Nigel I cannot communicate to the 'governors' of my child's school directly, but have to filter all communications through themselves.  An arrangement which seems to me ridiculous, paranoid, petty and un-British, but hey, what do I know about proper procedure?  The reason I spend so much unpaid time recording this kind of dialogue is to show conclusively that I have done every reasonable thing in my power to open genuine channels of free communication but have been met with a brick wall of non-cooperation and evasiveness.  Never mind - the case does not hinge on any of this, these letters are just so much wall-paper, decorating the stage.  The real action will play out soon enough.  

--------Update:  11.5.2016:  Letter to Derek Thomas MP: