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
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
Steven Roberts, professor, School of Education Culture and Society, Stephanie Wescott, lecturer, School of Education Culture and Society Many parents are worried about their children using social media. But these concerns tend to focus on privacy, exposure to explicit material or contact with strangers. As researchers looking at sexism and
Sarah Williams, Auckland University of Technology and Leon Benade, Edith Cowan University New Zealand’s school achievement is currently front and centre with the government’s plans to invest NZ$67 million into structured literacy. But what has been largely missing from the discussion on education is the impact health
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over 10 books to his name. His latest, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, was released in 2023. Recently, I watched a repeat of a classic
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. “We failed to keep these children safe. We failed to listen when they spoke out. We failed to act to ensure that it did not happen again.” Familiar words in the mouths of bishops apologising for sexual abuse by priests. But this
Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13. No comment needed from me… from
Family First As part of indoctrinating a radical and extreme sexuality & gender ideology to our children, there is now “Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa” for NZ schools being held this week (17-21 June), overseen by the radical and government-funded charity InsideOUT, but also strongly promoted by the Ministry of Education
Family First As part of indoctrinating a radical and extreme sexuality & gender ideology to our children, there is now “Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa” for NZ schools being held this week (17-21 June), overseen by the radical and government-funded charity InsideOUT, but also strongly promoted by the Ministry of Education
The revised year 7–13 English curriculum, to be released in July, is expected to include compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons, as well as a recommended reading list ranging from contemporary New Zealand authors to Chaucer and Beowulf. […] Teachers are also concerned about the emphasis on traditional literary texts, such
The revised year 7–13 English curriculum, to be released in July, is expected to include compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons, as well as a recommended reading list ranging from contemporary New Zealand authors to Chaucer and Beowulf. […] Teachers are also concerned about the emphasis on traditional literary texts, such
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com Despite the intention of the new Government coalition to review the radical RSE programme in schools, both the Ministry of Education and InsideOut are going full steam ahead, promoting the guidelines, running courses with teachers, and basically ‘giving the bird’ to the new government and the
If you were going under for open-heart surgery, would you want your surgeon to be: a) the best and smartest at medical school, or, b) the “right” race? If the woke have their way, you won’t have any choice but to opt for b, and hope that Daquan knows
Many years ago, I was accosted on the street by a group of striking teachers, demanding more pay. Why, I asked them, should you be entitled to more of my taxes when school grades are consistently falling? In what other industry, outside of politics, after all, would the workforce be
