OIA Advises RSE Guidelines Not Compulsory
“In the absence of an announcement from the MOE to the education sector and parents, it’s vitally important that this news be communicated widely to school communities.”
Education
Who’s Really Pressuring Luxon to Fix Education?
It is getting rather obvious that the upper middle class is tired of pretending that ‘equality’ is good if it means their children are being locked out.
Labour, Where 58% Failure Is Fine by Them
Labour and the teachers’ unions are angry and upset because they don’t like the Government’s numbers on the number of kids failing at mathematics, preferring their numbers which still show 58% of year-eight kids are failing.
The Need for Massive Change in Education in New Zealand
The education result is, of course, a huge indictment on the Ministry of Education and the teacher unions.
A Vacancy for the Minister of Education
She has failed the very coalition agreement that underpins her government.
Face of the Day
Just 22 per cent of students are at the expected standard for maths at year eight and three out of five are more than a year behind.
Carpet Call: The Imperfect Gift of Freedom
There’s no doubt that the left is out to undermine our freedoms. They’re coming for our churches, our schools, our faith-based organisations, our farms, our mines, our cars and, most of all, our children.
Govt Launches Academy Pilot for Youth
Teenagers declared to be Young Serious Offenders will face a stronger and escalated response, with more options for the Youth Court and Police.
Goodbye to a Rag
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When Stuff announced the closure of The Sunday News, I was stunned to learn it was still in existence. In its heyday decades back, it was famed for its pervading sleaziness, beatups over trivia and fictious sensationalism, for which evidently there was a market. Because
How Was This Even Allowed?
I’ve asked before, and I’ll ask again: when do we start spitting on teachers? It’s a rhetorical question, of course. I’m not really advocating hawk tuah-ing on random chalkies. Most of them are more-or-less dedicated professionals who do a pretty good job. Some are actually brilliant
Do Health and Safety Laws Threaten the Great Kiwi School Trip?
Chris North, University of Canterbury The Conversation Most of us will remember a school trip – that sense of excitement and anticipation of days spent outside the classroom, away from school and home, making new friends [and] appreciating teachers and parents in a new light. Indeed, what is known as “education
Why Antisemitism Is Likely to Grow
Barry Brownstein AIER Barry Brownstein is professor emeritus of economics and leadership at the University of Baltimore. Let us be wary of the soothing narrative that downplays the seriousness of growing antisemitism. The belief that Jew hate will diminish once the Israel-Hamas war concludes may be misguided. As I go
Let Kids Be Kids
Mark Freeman A Waikato mother is travelling around the country, informing people about the sexualisation of children in the school curriculum and encouraging parents to find out more from their children’s schools. Penny Marie is the founder of Let Kids Be Kids, a New Zealand-wide grassroots network of parents
NZ Children Treated as Educational Guinea Pigs
A friend commented recently that her working week as a primary school teacher is five days in the classroom, plus several hours per night and most of Saturday at home. She’s diligent but understandably she is planning retirement. The demands of teaching have forced many good teachers out and
Sex Education at Wakatipu High School 2024
Rodney Hide Rodney Hide is a former ACT Party leader and minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 My 13-year-old daughter is a year-9 student at Wakatipu High School. The School’s Head of Health and Physical Education emailed me explaining an upcoming course on Relationship and Sexuality