All that you're doing is creating a mexican wave of rolled eyebrows in the staffroom, another whole school email/letter and a ticking off of someone who probably has enough on their plate as it is, probably one of the secretaries. They probably get this all the time, pedantic parents throwing their weight around.
That's okay with me.
I'm a lay person and I can't quote laws.
But I get annoyed at people who don't say what they mean, whine about being really busy and hide behind legal-sounding stuff to avoid having to research or explain their position and lie in order to exert power or answer difficult questions.
The lying in order to exert power and dodge questions I get very angry about because I came across it frequently as a news reporter. I don't do that branch of journalism any more but the hackles still rise. And they would even it it hadn't been my job to be a professional irritant.
I've lost count of the times I have been told by the police, council and court officials and other officials such as head teachers or health authority administrators to move on and stop asking questions otherwise they will have me arrested for a criminal offence or get an injunction, which is actually a civil procedure, but never let the facts get in the way of a good lie.
I learned to say calmly: 'Under what Act are you acting? I am entitled to ask questions in this interview/on public land/in a public court. I am causing no danger. I suggest you let me get on with my job and I'll let you get on with yours.'
I'll let you into a secret. I was bluffing most of the time. I just gambled correctly that they knew the law even less than I did - and that includes police officers and court officials.
I've been threatened with arrest. It's never happened to me and I think that is because a robust but polite attitude makes chancers back down.
As I said, it's become a bit more difficult to do that since 9/11 because you only have to mention terrorism to have people nodding in agreement and taking off their shoes.
But even before then a clause was passed in an Act which made it an offence to 'cause alarm, harassment and distress'. That was some time in the late 80s or early 90s and it was a bolt-on clause to some kind of law and order Act.
I think it was originally devised in the wake of the miners' strike to prevent pickets telling the police to fuck off and in the meantime stop bashing them over the head with a truncheon.
It's been cited a lot but the CPS generally throw it out. It was hilariously used to prosecute a drunken student who taunted a mounted police officer that his horse was gay.
But there was also the man who posted a clear joke on Twitter about blowing up Robin Hood Airport in Nottingham because of a delay who had his life torn apart and put on hold for nearly two years.
I'm nobody's hero but I can't believe the number of people who think it's okay to lie to get what you want and want people to stop questioning things.
Thalidomide? That's okay. They were trying to save pregnant women from hyperemesis. It's a horrible condition. It wasn't really Distiller's fault that they knew it caused terrible birth defects and yet denied that for years.