CASSYANNE thinks schools are ‘a prison’. The mom and business owner decided to remove her daughters - Bug, 9 and Bunny, 8, from school this year. Cassyanne said: “The main reasons were, I don’t like what’s being taught in school… I believe a child learns more from freedom on the outside of school rather than sitting in a classroom for six to eight hours.” Cassyanne said instead of school, the girls have tutoring at home on a Monday and the rest of the week have education and activities organised by her, as well as learning to clean and cook. Her decision has been met with a lot of backlash online but Cassyanne said: “For people that judge me on my parenting, I don’t really care.” She describes her daughters as ‘very good, well-mannered, polite children’ and likes to treat them with regular cosmetic treatments. The soon-to-be mom-of-three has also faced criticism from her mom about her decision to pull the girls out of school. She explained: “My mom is anti-taking them out of school. She does not agree with it.”
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00:00I think school's a prison.
00:01I pulled the girls out of school about four or five months ago now.
00:03So what's your favourite thing about not going to school?
00:06It can't be just your phone.
00:07You're on a phone ban at the minute.
00:08I'm a millionaire businesswoman and I dropped out of school at 14.
00:12For people that judge me on my parenting, I don't really care.
00:17My mum, she does not agree with it.
00:19What can school give them that I can't?
00:22Education.
00:26Bug bunny!
00:27Right, breakfast.
00:30They're only 12 months apart but they're like chalk and cheese.
00:33Hi, I'm Cassianne.
00:34I work in the health and aesthetic industry and also influencing on social media.
00:39So I've got two babies, Bug and Bunny.
00:42They're eight and nine.
00:43And then I have a new one on the way who is called Johnny Blue.
00:47How is an average day for you now compared to when the girls are in school?
00:52So normally we'd get up and it'd be a rush all morning trying to get them dressed
00:56and waking them up, going to school.
00:58We don't really have a hectic morning as such.
01:02So I pulled the girls out of school about four or five months ago now.
01:05I already knew they weren't going to stay in education after year six
01:08but the way that the schooling system is, I removed them beforehand.
01:13The main reasons were I don't like what's being taught in school.
01:18I believe a child learns more from freedom on the outside of school
01:22rather than sitting in a classroom for six to eight hours.
01:25The girls, they didn't have a say in what I was going to do
01:28with their future and their education.
01:30If they still want to go to school or university, college, they can.
01:33But for now, they go by my rules whilst they live under my house.
01:37Is there anything you miss about school?
01:42I miss my friends at school.
01:44What do you miss about school?
01:46Bank.
01:46You don't miss nothing about school?
01:48Nothing at all?
01:49No, because I can text my friends.
01:50So what's your favourite thing about not going to school?
01:53Can't be just your phone because you're on a phone ban at the minute.
01:57On a Monday, the children have tutoring and education
02:01and then every single day, except days that I do things,
02:04I work my own hours and they kind of work around me.
02:08So when I'm not working, we have education and then playtime.
02:13They'll do cooking, they'll do cleaning
02:16and they'll learn about being domestic as well as an education at home.
02:20What else do you like about being at home rather than school?
02:23Because we don't have to.
02:24Don't have to what?
02:26Work.
02:26Do maths or do English or do science.
02:29And what do you learn at home that you don't learn there?
02:31Clean up.
02:34I do co-parent with the children's dad.
02:38The girl's dad is fine with my decision.
02:40I think that pulling the girls out, especially their background being travellers,
02:45they do come out of education early anyway.
02:48So it was going to happen within time.
02:51It was just the fact that I pulled them out earlier.
02:57So after chores, the girls come up, they get their outfits.
03:00They're always matching.
03:02They get their outfits, they do the hair, do the skincare.
03:04They know about designer.
03:06They've known about it for a very, very long time.
03:08This is Chanel.
03:09This is Louis Vuitton, Rolex, Tom Ford, Dior.
03:14So I like the girls to have nice things purely because one,
03:18I've got it myself and I know what it feels like to have nice things.
03:22And then two, if they've got it from young,
03:24they can't be bribed with when they're older or given gifts
03:27and feel like it's everything to them.
03:29I'm a millionaire businesswoman and I dropped out of school at 14.
03:32I do believe me coming out of school early has had a big influence on the children.
03:38Reason being, I've had no GCSEs,
03:41but yet I've built very, very big successful businesses.
03:45Everything that I've ever wanted in life,
03:48I've managed to get myself off my own back.
03:50Already my girls are quite successful.
03:52So my bug has started up Heatless Rollers.
03:56That's well curly.
03:58Online, she sells them.
03:59She does little bits here and there.
04:01I'm very strict as a parent.
04:03They don't just get a yes mum 24-7.
04:06My will, there's stages in my will.
04:08So like, they're not allowed to inherit one house
04:11until they're married with a prenup.
04:15Right, go on, sit your bum down.
04:20I get my lashes done every few weeks.
04:23I like getting my lashes done because it gets the vibe.
04:28I've always tinted their eyebrows since they were babies
04:31and like, had their ears pierced young.
04:34I've got very good, well-mannered, polite children
04:37that say, please, thank you,
04:39that are very grateful and very appreciative.
04:41So I do spoil them because they deserve it.
04:47For people that judge me on my parenting,
04:50I don't really care.
04:51So if they've got something to say,
04:53I just take it with a pinch of salt
04:55and then it's just a matter of proving them wrong.
04:58So the girls do get a lot of comments
05:02that are not the best of comments.
05:03People, like full-grown adults, comment on their appearance,
05:07what they're going to be like when they're older,
05:09they call them names.
05:10I don't let them see nothing.
05:11I put them in a bubble
05:13and I would never let them get affected by it.
05:16But like, grown women are commenting on children.
05:19I don't understand it personally.
05:22Nugget.
05:24Hello, hello.
05:26Hiya.
05:26How are we?
05:28You all right?
05:30How are we?
05:32Hi, girls.
05:34Where's Mummy?
05:36Go and get Uncle Sashy a drink and Omi
05:39and then you can go upstairs and play.
05:41She's actually a really soft-hearted bunny.
05:43She just puts on a front, doesn't she?
05:45Yeah, I don't know why.
05:46Because she thinks she's a big girl now,
05:48having those eyelashes.
05:52It's got nothing to do with her eyelashes.
05:54My mum is anti-taking them out of school.
05:58She does not agree with it.
06:00But obviously, I'm the parent and what I say goes.
06:04Life is about learning the negative things.
06:08For children, it's important these days,
06:10I think, to learn certain skills you cannot give them at home.
06:14What can school give them that I can't?
06:16Education.
06:18I believe taking them out of school
06:20because of your beliefs is right,
06:22but the timing is wrong.
06:24I believe they are too young to be taken out now.
06:27For Bunny, for example,
06:29Bunny's creative and she's got a good imagination.
06:32School would be perfect.
06:33No, no.
06:34School is a box.
06:36Yeah, thank you.
06:37She's being told,
06:38you're not good at maths so you need to do more maths.
06:40Why?
06:41If she's not good at it, okay, she's not good at it.
06:44But this day and age, you've got calculators.
06:46Best thing I've done was leave school
06:48and the thing I wish I'd done before was leave school earlier.
06:51At the time, it wasn't out of choice.
06:52I wish it was out of choice.
06:54I feel like I've got such a head start on everyone
06:56because like you said, being around people outside,
06:58like business.
07:00You are the five people you surround yourself with the most.
07:02Do you remember when you decided,
07:04when you personally decided,
07:06enough is enough, I don't want to go to grammar school no more.
07:09You got privately educated with beauty and stuff.
07:12Everything was privately done,
07:13but you were in education.
07:15The same goes with Johnny when he's born.
07:18He'll go into education until he can read, write,
07:22do maths, like basic core things,
07:24have a social life
07:26and then he'll be pulled out, exactly the same.
07:28He's got to go to school, I can't have a dumb kid.
07:30He'll jump on with his dad, he'll go to work,
07:32he'll earn money straight away.
07:34Do I ever see Johnny going to university?
07:36Absolutely not.
07:37If he wanted to, he could.
07:38But what's wrong with that?
07:39I'm not saying nothing's wrong with it,
07:40but I'd rather him go down his own path.
07:44If he wants to, he can.
07:45You are a very loving mum.
07:47You always put your children first.
07:49I don't want that you lose yourself of doing too much.
07:54Then I feel like I'm in a different limelight
07:59where I can do it.
08:01The children are going to have a lovely life
08:03and do whatever they want, have whatever they want.
08:06To trolls that have a lot to say,
08:08stop scrolling through social media
08:10and having something to say about a woman
08:13that's pregnant, that's got two children,
08:14that is just trying to better their life.
08:16It's just pathetic, really.