The man at the centre of an embattled Brisbane kindergarten has ignored four attempts by the regulatory authority to meet this week, as parents fear the ongoing chaos at the once-idyllic northside centre will spoil their children’s final term before starting school.

Families at the Craigslea Community Kindergarten in Chermside West have refused to send their children to the kindy after a bitter dispute led to almost all parents resigning from the management committee and a staff exodus.

This masthead revealed this month that C&K, as the central governing body, had cut funding to its affiliated kindy and launched an investigation into claims one parent, Thomas D’Souza, was running the centre’s management committee on his own.

Once D’Souza had taken control of the committee, the staff w

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