Topic: More oh Dear! Posted 1st September on the Matravers school website

[Debs]

as far as I'm aware the school was never dragged into this mess so why the need to openly dissociate themselves? Most members of the public me included probably didn't even know Russell was a governor.

its probably got something to do with the redand white forum urging everone on there to contact any "body" he is associated with  andcomplain most bitterly about his "actions"    they gave out names and addresses of thhose who to contact and basically the sort of thing to say..    all it needed was one troll here who knows everying about him to say it in the right ear and bingo..mayhem for all not just russell 

[sclarkson]

There was encouragement by Dave Hawkins of the Hillsborough Justice campaign himself to mass mail staff members not only at Matravers but also the Primary School.

It would appear the Primary School did not panic unlike Matravers because as far as I am aware there is no press statement from them.

The word censure was not authorised to be used, The Head should not have been the one to release the statement, it should not have been released twice and the School should and could have said it was a matter for the Council who made Russell their Governor of the School. It would appear there was a mixture of panic and seizing of an opportunity by some to try and remove Russell as a Governor.

You would think a required skill to be a Governor is to be able to handle various storms in teacups more calmly.

[baldy]

I see that comments are being made in the Donkin (V.3) forum about my relationship with other Governors.
 
Actually, considering the stir made by the Head and Chairman right at my first meeting and in their press statement, I've found the behaviour of other governors to be entirely professional. The ones I see quite often via the committees I am on seem very reasonable people to me.
 
Pete on the old forum has commented that I cut a lonely figure at the Open Evening. The problem was that I arrived late having been caught in a long meeting at County Hall just before and then very few parents actually came into the dining room where I was asked to stand ... so I went off to the Technology classrooms to meet the Head of Technology as this is my link subject.
 
I've raised a formal complaint about the behaviour of the Head and Chairman in exceeding their authority with the press statement. This does not seem to have made it onto the agenda of tonight's full Governing Body agenda.
 
One agenda item is the adoption of a code of conduct which makes clear that disciplinary issues and disputes should be dealt with by discussion and that the formal procedures under existing Regulations should be a last resort.
 
The current Acting chairman of the GB is a very smart solicitor and I'm sure she knows what she is doing in trying to get the code of conduct adopted before dealing with my complaint.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Special edit to show the outcome of all the smears and nonsense by Liverpool FC fans and other smear campaigners:

Here is the Statement I issued on 16 July 2010:
http://russellhawker.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/a-statement-on-my-hillsborough-comments/
 
   
Update as at 29 October 2010:
See: http://www.westburytownforums.co.uk/index.php/topic,2628.msg37756.html#msg37756
 
 
The Wiltshire Times has published a very small article on page 4 today headed: "Hawker cleared".
 
There is no picture and it only takes up about 2 inches of one column, which is in stark contrast to all their other stories claiming that I'd done something wrong via half a page or so so of drivel stated by some smear campaigner or another.
 
I'll put up a link if they put it online. 
 
All it says is:

"Hawker cleared"
 
Wiltshire councillor Russell Hawker has been cleared by the local government watchdog, Standards for England, following his comments in June that hooligans were one of the root causes of the Hillsborough disaster.
 
Standards for England said Cllr Hawker was entitled to express his views even if the way he chooses to do so may appear to some to be "ill-informed, objectionable and insensitive".