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PPTA Continues to Grind Students

Alwyn Poole Awyn 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 Unless

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The Transgender Agenda Has Gone Too Far

The Transgender Agenda Has Gone Too Far

Brian Tamaki I am standing up to the Transgender agenda. I am drawing attention to this scourge in our schools and society. It’s crossed the line…it’s gone too far. This week I made a statement in a public meeting referring to The Warehouse and puberty blockers. An

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Sexualising Our Children Is Nothing to Be Proud Of

Sexualising Our Children Is Nothing to Be Proud Of

Family First familyfirst.org.nz There are so many LGBT-focused days during the year that it may be easier to mark the days when it’s not being showcased. But there’s no “pride” in pushing radical sexuality & gender ideology on children. Auckland Pride Month in February, Transgender Visibility

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‘He Who Pays the Piper’

‘He Who Pays the Piper’

Lawrence W. Reed Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real Heroes: Incredible

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Confronting Communist China

Confronting Communist China

Gary Bauer Gary L. Bauer is an Opinion Columnist at The Patriot Post, and is one of America’s most effective spokesmen for pro-life, pro-family, and pro-growth values. Bauer is a frequent guest on a wide variety of political talk shows and a much-in-demand speaker nationwide. papundits.wordpress.com Reprinted

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The Day That Will Live In Infamy

El Gato Malo El Gato Malo is a pseudonym for an account that has been posting on pandemic policies from the outset. brownstone.org We have met the enemy, and they are us. While perhaps the US is a Constitutional republic in form and theory, in terms of function it

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Opposing CRT Doesn’t Make You a “White Supremacist”

Julian Adorney Julian Adorney is a writer and marketing consultant with the Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org), and has previously written for National Review, The Federalist and other outlets. mises.org Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founders of Critical Race Theory (CRT), recently decried what she called the “war

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Govt still has a target on Bethlehem College’s back

Govt still has a target on Bethlehem College’s back

Family First familyfirst.org.nz At a time when most New Zealanders believe that the Ministry of Education and Minister Jan Tinetti should be focusing on concerns over educational standards and NCEA, the flow-on effects of the many COVID lockdowns and missed learning, finding and training teachers to deal with

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Does Graphic Sex Lit Belong in Schools?

Does Graphic Sex Lit Belong in Schools?

We live in a time of near-universal deceit. And the biggest damned liars on the face of the planet are the media-left. When they’re not knowingly lying, they’re spouting obvious lies because they’re too stupid and bigoted to bother searching for the truth. Harsh words? Maybe — but

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A Focus on Changing How Your Children Think

A Focus on Changing How Your Children Think

A chance comment from a family member recently piqued my interest in what New Zealand children are being taught about racism in school. Like the air, you can’t see it but, apparently, racism is everywhere. Racism is everywhere. It is woven into the fabric of society.  It lives in

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The Best Life Lesson for a Teen Is a Job

brownstone.org During the Covid debacle, kids were locked out of school or otherwise condemned to an inferior Zoom education for up to two years. What were the alternatives? Unfortunately, since the New Deal, the federal government has severely restricted teenagers’ opportunities for gainful employment. But new evidence proves that

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A Fourth Article for the Treaty?

A Fourth Article for the Treaty?

lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Massey University issued a draft Tiriti o Waitangi Policy in May 2022 to staff, students and stakeholders which expresses its “commitment to uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its associated principles”. It was prepared by the Office of the DVC Maori (Deputy Vice Chancellor Maori) to update

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One Woman’s Dream of a Better Future for South Auckland Youth

One Woman’s Dream of a Better Future for South Auckland Youth

The increasingly alarming statistics around education failure and youth crime is tempered by the work begun by one South Auckland mother concerned about the future of its youth. A life of crime and drugs for many appeared inevitable until Sue Dickens decided she had seen enough failure in their lives

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Reads Like Satire but Isn’t

Reads Like Satire but Isn’t

Steven Tucker mercatornet.com Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. One of the most

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Critical Theory Not on Nats’ Agenda

Critical Theory Not on Nats’ Agenda

A May Reid Research poll found 70 per cent of people believed the Labour Government is not doing enough to address falling literacy and numeracy rates. Could it be they are too distracted with “smuggling left-wing nonsense into our schools”, as ACT’s Chris Baillie has opined? A hilarious moment

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The More Things Change…

The More Things Change…

alwynpoole.substack.com This week most secondary schools have rostered home year-nine and year-10 students. The teacher unions try and tell NZ that they are doing this for the good of the children. This is despite the huge decline in attendance and academic performance. It is also alongside a worldwide

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