The Rantykiwi top bloke award for this week goes to Cameron Davis, the principal of Riverton’s Aparima College. He’s stepped up and said cellphones have no place in schools, wants the community to back banning them from his school, and is calling the local community out for not backing him. Bravo – he’s on the right track.
A critical look at the Auckland teacher grooming case of Tamlyn May – and a practical guide for parents to spot grooming and protect their children.
There seems to be plenty of class time to discuss gender, the politically correct pronouns and social justice issues. But that isn’t why we send our kids to school. We want them to learn basic skills so they can function successfully as adults. And, in so many cases, that just isn’t happening.
If the trends above occurred under Labour, the political right would be castigating them. It is easy to point the finger at the last Labour government, but National have been the main party of government for 11 of the last 17 years.
SchoolDocs is used by approximately 80–85 per cent of schools in New Zealand. We found them referencing 'gender identity' in a misleading way.
If Long Covid is real, then it needs clear definition, objective markers and exclusion of confounders. Otherwise, it will be no more than a medical fashion that flourished in the spotlight before dissolving in the cold light of evidence.
The city’s voters are about to get exactly what they asked for – middle class pain brought on by the false promise of a socialist utopia.
