A staff member at prestigious Wellington school Scots College has been arrested and appeared in Wellington District Court on Thursday morning charged with assault. The saga at the school has been ongoing since May with the staff member suspended on full pay since the time of the complaint, pending the
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, TV and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
“Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man,” said Aristotle. “Give us your children now, and don’t expect them back,” say America’s public schools. Which may be why growing numbers of Americans are choosing not to hand their kids over to
Titus Gebel mises.org Titus Gebel is founder, President, and CEO of Free Private Cities, Inc. He is a German entrepreneur with a PhD in international law, and is the author of Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You. The battle for political supremacy in the West has been
I am truly concerned about the rubbish and nonsense our kids and grandkids are being taught or brainwashed regarding global climate change at school. The schoolteachers are without a doubt completely irresponsible as they continue with their plan to promote the green’s unforgivable lie and at the same time
Is it time to reset the clock again? Yet another American public school has been caught out, foisting yet another far-left activist on its kids. It sure sounds like yet another sally in the Long March through the Institutions. An Ohio superintendent defended a decision to bring a self-described “anarchist
Words fail me. This has to be both the worst performance by a minister in this failed regime, and the best performance by a Speaker. The whole charade will leave you dumbfounded. Jan Tinetti used to be a teacher and a union hack. This is the sort of imbecile that
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Anon. Wellesley Student brownstone.org Anon Wellesley student remains that way because she would like to continue as a student. I was appalled, but not surprised, when on Saturday, September 24, the Dean of Students at Wellesley College, where I am a student, buried at the end of an email
Thousands of New Zealand students are not enrolled in school and close to a thousand have been absent from school for more than a year. Youth worker Brendon Crompton said the number didn’t line up with the reality of what he was seeing. “Around 1000 children is too low.
As I’ve recently reported, American school childrens’ basic literacy and numeracy scores have slid dramatically over the past decade. That trend has only been exacerbated by Covid policies such as school closures. Other policies such as mass-mask mandates have been shockingly detrimental to the learning abilities of the very
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.innovativeeducation.co.nz/generation-skip People have finally realised that our education system is turning into a real mess. There is NO WAY that can be blamed on Covid. It is, of course, the children who can least afford to miss
For the first time in 10 years, Creative NZ declined a funding proposal for $31,000 to go towards an annual School Shakespeare festival. It was defunded for the following reasons: the Creative NZ board raised worries the festival “did not demonstrate the relevance to the contemporary art context of
Thomas Sowell famously wrote that a growing problem with the US education system “isn’t that Johnny can’t read”. The real problem, Sowell said, is that Johnny can’t think, because “Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.” As we see, American students have
Sloan Rachmuth mercatornet.com Sloan Rachmuth is a conservative journalist, education activist, and mom of two. She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard, with PhD work in media psychology. Sloan is a micro-targeting, messaging, and behavior modification specialist. Sloan is a contributor at the Federalist, The National Pulse, The American
David Pomeroy Sara Tolbert Kay-Lee Jones University of Canterbury Becky Taylor UCL Christine Rubie-Davies University of Auckland David is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Canterbury Faculty of Education, and a former secondary mathematics teacher. Sarah Tolbert is currently the Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the
