20/11/2025
🚨 ⚠️STILL NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - SCHOOL NAMED IN CAPTION⚠️🚨
(KAREWA UNIT ONLY)
I sent a second urgent written inquiry to the PĀPĀMOA PRIMARY Board yesterday morning, as my first email wasn’t acknowledged, detailing privacy breaches and supervision risks involving our 5-year-olds.
This wasn’t a casual email. It went to:
✅ The Presiding Member
✅ Every Board Member (undelivered – see post below)
✅ Senior Leadership
✅ The school office
**the whole governance chain**
And yet…
Not even a basic “Received, thank you.”
Nothing.
To be clear:
⛔️ The inquiry was marked urgent, highlighting serious breaches of student privacy and supervision risks.
⛔️ It involved statutory obligations under the Education & Training Act 2020, Children’s Act 2014, Vulnerable Children Act 2014, and Privacy Act 2020.
⛔️ The inquiry directly referenced evidence and prior correspondence, with attachments and detailed documentation.
⛔️ Governance standards and Board policy require acknowledgment of urgent written communications from parents raising safeguarding concerns.
⛔️ There is no reasonable administrative reason for failing to confirm receipt of an urgent, evidence-backed inquiry about minor safety and privacy.
⛔️ This has nothing to do with parent help, supervision, or teaching kids how to dress faster, as some have implied. It is about safeguarding, breaches of privacy, and student dignity - and every parent should be concerned.
⛔️ The Board also has statutory obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, which they have publicly reaffirmed despite changes to national law. Pāpāmoa Primary states that giving effect to Te Tiriti brings “richness, depth, and authenticity” to their work, strengthens connections with the community, and enriches learning experiences for tamariki. Their moral and governance obligations under Te Tiriti include protection, partnership, and participation, which encompass safeguarding students privacy and wellbeing.
With all email correspondence attached, including all evidence of exposure, detailing and highlighting everything the school has admitted that confirms my concerns, with a timeline, the school itself admits every element of my concerns, including:
⛔️ Students changing in classrooms visible to peers of the opposite gender and to the public (confirmed by Principal and DP in emails, 12–14 Nov).
⛔️ Temporary arrangements were provided only for my child while the wider risk remained unaddressed (Principal, 12–14 Nov)
⛔️ Classrooms currently have no blinds or coverings to protect privacy during changing (DP 14 Nov).
⛔️ Supervision ratios are inadequate, with one teacher responsible for 18 five-year-olds during high-risk changing activities (Principal announcement to parents, 17 Nov).
⛔️ The practice has been in place for 15 years without systemic review (Principal, 14 Nov).
⛔️ Principal and junior teachers do not share my view, implicitly acknowledging a disagreement but confirming the situation occurred (Principal, 14 Nov).
⛔️ Communication to parents minimized the seriousness of the breach and framed it as staff convenience rather than a safeguarding issue (Principal announcement, 14–16 Nov).
Like I said, my patience is wearing thin, and now everyone can know who the school of issue is.
This isn’t one missed email. This is a trail of avoidance. A timeline showing exactly how many opportunities they had to engage - and how many they ignored.
When we’re talking about student privacy, safeguarding, legal obligations, and moral obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, an acknowledgement isn’t a courtesy -
it’s the absolute minimum.
If this is the response to a detailed, evidence-backed inquiry, parents should be asking:
What else goes unaddressed when no one challenges the system?
Silence is not governance.
Silence is not accountability.
Silence is a problem.
**check my highlights for context
