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.
Education
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
Here’s What Parents of Boys Should Know
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
The Govt Needs to Invest More in Student Healthcare
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
The Degeneration of Doctor Who into Woke Propaganda
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
Victorians May Never Learn the Scale of This in Schools
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
NEETS: the Result of NZ’s Education and Welfare Systems
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
No ‘Pride’ in Sexualising Children
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
No ‘Pride’ in Sexualising Children
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