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Dad Jokes and Their Role

Shane Rogers Edith Cowan University Marc Hye-Knudsen Aarhus University theconversation.com This Father’s Day you may be rolling out your best ‘dad jokes’ and watching your children laugh (or groan). Maybe you’ll hear your own father, partner or friend crack a dad joke or two. You know the

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Aspiring for NZ to Be the Best Country for Parenting

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.com In

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Helping New Zealanders to Be Better with Money

Stephen Agnew University of Canterbury theconversation.com Even as an economics student at university, I remember heading into town on a Friday night knowing what I needed to pay the bills before I could spend on socialising. But despite having the financial literacy to know better, Monday could still sometimes

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Public Schools: Students and Teachers Giving Up

As I keep advising parents of today’s school-aged children: Homeschool your kids. In retrospect, it’s what I would have done, had I my druthers. Absolutely, were my kids school-aged now, it’s what I’d do. It’s not just that schools are clearly doing a pretty bad

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Get ’Em Woke While They’re Young

Get ’Em Woke While They’re Young

In a stunning scene from Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, a priest delivers a terrifying sermon on the torments of hell. The priest is played by author Thomas Keneally, who would later talk of his “feeling of outrage that at the age of seven we were lumbered with

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The Creation of the Alphabet

Yehezkel Laing Yehezkel Laing is a journalist, actor and filmmaker living in Jerusalem. aish.com For a hundred years scholars have been searching for the mysterious people who created the alphabet. Has the answer been under their nose all the time? The alphabet is such a basic part of our

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A Day I Will Never Forget

Principal X November 15th, 2021 marked a day of profound heartbreak for me, a day I will never forget. On this day, a profound shift occurred; a juncture where former allies in leadership transformed into arbiters of my exile, classifying me as a ‘safety risk’. Just one week prior to

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In an Age of Lies

In an Age of Lies

David Rennie The New Zealand education system has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a social justice factory whose only inputs are race, gender and victimhood and whose only output is grievance and division. I, along with most other sane New Zealanders, feel morally obliged to make as much

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All 3 Kids ‘Trans’? Nothing to See Here

All 3 Kids ‘Trans’? Nothing to See Here

A “trans” child, it is said, is like a vegan cat: you know someone else is really making the decisions. Increasingly, with “trans men” (girls who pretend to be boys) especially, the decisions are being made by their peer groups and the internet. It’s notable that girls identifying as

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How to Alienate Your Voters

Fear has been instilled in parts of New Zealand’s female population by the activist left’s ludicrous insistence that trans-women are ‘actual’ women and should have access to women’s public facilities, with the media jeering and laughing at their fears and the traditional, factual interpretation of “women’s”

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The Problem with Teacher Only Days

The Problem with Teacher Only Days

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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Will Banning Cellphones in Schools Work?

Eunice Gaerlan Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com The National Party’s promised ban on cellphones in schools has been touted by leader Christopher Luxon as a “common sense” and “practical” way to address New Zealand’s poor academic achievement. And his claim that “phones are a massive disturbance and

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Easy As Lead to More Dropouts

Easy As Lead to More Dropouts

We hardly need any more evidence that the pandemic policies of Western governments were a brutal failure, yet, the evidence just keeps mounting. Whether it’s the sheer, fascist-lite brutality of the political-bureaucratic class, with their lockdowns and mandates, or the lasting damage to wider public health which was easily

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Sporting Success and Academic Success

Sporting Success and Academic Success

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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To Parents and Children: Just Read!

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.com In

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Milgram Is Still Relevant Today

Milgram Is Still Relevant Today

Armando Simón Armando Simón is a retired psychologist, originally from Cuba, and author of The U, Fables From the Americas and A Prison Mosaic. brownstone.org Today’s toxic state in society is a cornucopia for psychologists. For example, victimhood has become a status symbol in society to the point

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