The Flynn Effect is the observation that IQ scores have risen with successive generations. But that doesn’t mean the children of today are necessarily any smarter than children 100 years ago. In fact, there’s plenty to indicate otherwise. For instance, peruse school reading lists. Required reading texts have
Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com 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
familyfirst.org.nz Further to the story of a controversial and extreme sex-ed handout being given to pupils aged 11-13, the teacher responsible has kept her job. What’s of most concern is that the sex-ed document had been viewed by the school’s Head of Department prior to it
With some supporters/backers I am interested in helping to establish a new school in beautiful Warkworth for 2023. Key features would be: * High quality, academically focussed teaching and great facilities. * 15 children for Y7, Y8, Y9, and Y10 – making a total of 60. * Applying the model, day structure and
With some supporters/backers I am interested in helping to establish a new school in beautiful Warkworth for 2023. Key features would be: * High quality, academically focussed teaching and great facilities. * 15 children for Y7, Y8, Y9, and Y10 – making a total of 60. * Applying the model, day structure and
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. When parents send their children to school in New Zealand, they expect them to be in a safe and encouraging environment, where they can develop, learn and ultimately reach their potential. Stuff recently revealed that a rapist was hired
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future… history is continuously rewritten. This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage.” – George Orwell, 1984 The necessity to
As reported recently on the BFD, an Irish teacher has been sentenced to jail in a dispute over “preferred pronouns”. This is the sort of brutal authoritarianism that Jordan Peterson tried to warn us would inevitably follow in the wake of enforced “pronoun” speech. Now, another victim is feeling the
Clay Waters newsbusters.org Clay Waters was director of Times Watch, a former project of the Media Research Center. His self-published whodunnit? is Death In The Eye. A massive two-year New York Times’ investigation condemning Jewish yeshiva schools appeared on the front page on Sunday, September 11. The core accusation
cfact.org CFACT’s Marc Morano, director of communications and editor of Climate Depot pretended to eat an insect on One America News (OAN) TV to highlight the folly of Australian schools beginning to incorporate insect based-foods. Morano: “What’s happening in Australia, and you’re absolutely right the World
Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com 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. Dear All
You know, for a mob who are always sneering about alleged “white fragility”, the brown woke left seems to be an awfully snowflakey bunch. Just this week, we’ve had Aboriginal activists telling us that the mere name of the late Queen makes them feel “culturally unsafe”. In New Zealand,
Canadian high school says it is ILLEGAL to criticize trans teacher with huge prosthetic breasts. Canadian high school says it is ILLEGAL to criticize trans teacher with huge prosthetic breasts as it’s claimed ‘disturbed’ students are skipping her classes and school board is refusing to address parents’ concerns The
The number of children unenrolled from school has more than doubled under Labour, National’s Education spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “After five years of Labour and an extra $5 billion in education spending every year, the number of children unenrolled from school has skyrocketed to 8,500 – more than double
Few issues illustrate the yawning divide in the West between the elite and we common folk than immigration. Specifically, mass immigration and, too often, illegal immigration, from what we used to call the Third World to the West. The elite just love immigration, legal or not. After all, they get
I’ve encountered professions with more ridiculously outsized egos than teachers – but few outside the newsrooms of the legacy media. That’s not to say that all teachers are up themselves. Some of them (far fewer by the year, if students’ results are anything to go by) are even pretty
