Schools should not have ANY teacher only days in term time. They should also not be having half-day closures for parent interviews. Not only are both hugely inconvenient – and often expensive – for families but they also send completely the wrong message on the value of a school day.
Just ask teachers about the childcare generations.
Do NZ’s appalling attendance rates reflect parents’ rejection of race-mandated education?
Te ao Māori remains pre-eminent at Auckland University.
Seems not to matter much who is leading in National on education, there are the same themes and faults.
This is the deliberate and intended outcome of ‘modun edyucayshun’.
Shouldn’t safeguarding and our duty to teach children the truth preclude the recognition of cross-sex and other neo-identities at schools?
Leftist educators furious at being shown up as failures.
David Todor and I met recently in Toronto when we both shared our testimonies at the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) ‘Are Children Safe In Canada?’
Calls to label boys’ behaviour as toxic risk silencing free thought in classrooms.
From what I have seen professionally, the majority of children classed as autistic are not autistic. This has made me incandescent with rage, as it should the entire medical and political establishment.
‘Do I think it’s a good idea to scrap art history? No, I think it’s a terrible, tragic idea’ – Dame Jane Campion.
If all NZ children could – and would – read the seven books of the Chronicles of Narnia... it would be hard to say we have a literacy crisis.
Kim in Wales explains what we’re grappling with across the world, and we are concerned that it’s NOT been removed from NZ’s education system.
You – Minister Stanford – have listened to very narrow views and have not addressed the needs of truly struggling schools.
