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.
Adults siphon off taxpayer money earmarked for kids, and no one is held accountable. Teachers’ unions share the same dysfunctional incentives as headline-grabbing fraudsters in Minnesota.
New Zealand’s education system is teaching children a modern ideological story as ancient truth – a story that rewrites history, embeds race-based authority and quietly undermines democratic equality.
When authoritarian governments have access to American campuses.
A true commitment to academic freedom means defending expression even when it’s unpopular or offensive. That’s the price of intellectual integrity in a free society.
Those who dare challenge elite opinion cartels will always pay the price. But they can live and die with a clean conscience. What matters more?
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Adults siphon off taxpayer money earmarked for kids, and no one is held accountable. Teachers’ unions share the same dysfunctional incentives as headline-grabbing fraudsters in Minnesota.
It’s not that these people are stupid. It’s that the rules they preach are for you, not for them.
