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
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
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
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
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”
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
Christopher Luxon National Party Leader Student achievement has significantly declined over the past three decades, jeopardising kids’ future livelihoods and threatening New Zealand’s future prosperity. To turn around this falling achievement, students need to focus on their schoolwork during their precious classroom time. Many schools and parents are concerned
Tracy Clelland Lecturer in Health Education University of Canterbury Relationship and sexuality education has, yet again, become a political talking point ahead of this year’s election. National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis recently told a public meeting that sex education was a job for her and her husband, “based
As I recently asked, how long before it’s illegal to be Christian in Australia? Here in Tasmania in particular, orthodox Christian teaching is being increasingly circumscribed by a vindictively litigious rainbow lobby. Whatever the Bible says, the permanently peeved pooverati are determined to ban it. Among recent incidents, a
Dr Melissa Derby Senior Lecturer at The University of Waikato commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room What is the purpose of education? It’s a question we should be seriously asking in New Zealand. Recent reports about the dire state of our literacy and numeracy
Vanessa Cobham Julie Hodges The University of Queensland theconversation.com Going to school can be challenging for children and young people at times. Most young people will have patches during their school career where it feels hard. That’s normal. Getting through those hard times can bring with it sense
