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Why This Data Is So Important

Why This Data Is So Important

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 Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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A Year on the Recommendations Still Stand

A Year on the Recommendations Still Stand

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 Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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Tips For Surviving the End

Tips For Surviving the End

Tani Newton Not to beat about the bush: we are living at the end of Western Civilisation. And not to belabour the point, let me address the question of what we can do to survive. I’ve long lived by the belief that the people most likely to survive the

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Aspiration Needs to Come from the Top

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 year 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.

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The Media Are Trying to Prove Us… Right!

bobmccoskrie.com Last week we did a McBLOG on the mainstream media’s obsession with the coalition agreement between National and NZ First which scraps and replaces the controversial and radical RSE curriculum. If you think that what we’re saying is all conspiracy theory, think again. The media are

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We Must Get Our Children Back to School

Richard Prebble The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. bassettbrashandhide.com It will not matter

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A Letter to Alumni About Grant Robertson

February 21st, 2024 Given the comments regarding the appointment of Grant Robertson as Vice Chancellor of the University of Otago, I have published below a communication sent to Otago Alumni. Tena koutou, I am pleased to let you know that today we announced the appointment of Former Deputy Prime Minister,

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Charter Schools and the Humorous Union Response

Charter Schools and the Humorous Union Response

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 Year 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.

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Government Schools Are Propaganda Machines

Government Schools Are Propaganda Machines

Karl Streitel Karl Streitel is a freelance editor and writer and former English and finance teacher. mises.org In Artis Shepherd’s recent article, which I highly recommend, he aptly detailed the numerous benefits of homeschooling and data showing that homeschooled students – far from being socially stunted, academically insular young

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Labels, Categories and the Fall of Rome

Labels, Categories and the Fall of Rome

Matt Judd Normally when I attempt to write one of these essays, I try to remember what my English teacher taught me last century and have an introduction, a body and a conclusion. I also try to give articles some sort of legitimacy by attaching a link or two to

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The Media Panic About Sex Education Changes

The Media Panic About Sex Education Changes

bobmccoskrie.com One of the superb parts of the coalition agreement between National and NZ First was the plan to scrap the controversial and radical RSE curriculum being indoctrinated in schools by harmful groups such as InsideOut (RainbowYouth) and Family Planning Association. But the media and the teacher unions are

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Universities Have Blown Their Last Chance

Universities Have Blown Their Last Chance

I keep saying it, and I’m joking less and less every time I do: time to bulldoze the universities. I’m not joking any more. The rise of wokeism in tandem with a deplorable dumbing-down of standards was bad enough. Encouraging violent censorship and pandering to the thugs of

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It Is Your Choice

It Is Your Choice

Tani Newton The new school year has started, and naturally most parents will have decided long ago what their children are going to do for their education this year. But for those with small children who are still considering keeping them at home, and for those with children in school

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Lions in Opposition but Lambs in Govt?

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 Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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The Left’s Long March Through the Institutions

The Left’s Long March Through the Institutions

Simone Seymour Glossary * revolutionary agitators – all those (by whatever name) who would destroy what is called Western civilisation as it is known today. (Radicals, activists, extremists and seditionists might be other names for them.) * sedition – the act (often sneaky) of influencing or persuading people to disrupt or act against the

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The Battle for Public Opinion

The Battle for Public Opinion

Paul Malvern Paul Malvern writes from Canada. He is president of The Malvern Consulting Group Ltd, which provides public and private sector clients with advice and assistance in the areas of strategic communication and social marketing. mercatornet.com In his study, On War, the 19th century military theorist, Carl von

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