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Letter from a Mandated Teacher

Letter from a Mandated Teacher

FreeNZ NZ Teachers Speaking Out With Science (NZTSOS) Some days it is just painful. It’s tough to get out of bed, to pretend to my kids that everything is OK, and that our country is a safe and fair place to live. I cannot count the times when I

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Teachers Should Mind Their Own Business

Teachers Should Mind Their Own Business

Once upon a time, people sent their children to school to get a rigorous basic education: you know, stuff like reading, writing and maths. These days, parents wanting that would be best advised to home-school — as a small but rapidly increasing number are. Sending your kids to a government or

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I Confess!

I Confess!

Barbara McKenzie Wellington Mayoral candidate stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. The Victoria University of Wellington Students Association (VUWSA) recently issued a defamatory press statement to the effect that they were ‘uninviting’ me from their mayoral debate, due to my ‘racist and transphobic views’, while also

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‘Womanface’ is Like  ‘Blackface’ – But You Can’t Say So

‘Womanface’ is Like ‘Blackface’ – But You Can’t Say So

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young

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Who’s Telling the Truth?

Who’s Telling the Truth?

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government needs to front up and tell the people of New Zealand the truth on a very simple question: do they want to make speaking Maori compulsory for holding a practicing certificate as a teacher, or not? This morning, two spokespeople contradicted each other

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Innovation Is Driving the Growth of Alternative Learning Models

Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a senior education fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a regular Forbes

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This Is Why You Should Home-School

This Is Why You Should Home-School

When we talk about the grooming agenda slithering through schools, focus has lately been on the gender whisperers and the pedos (often the same thing). After all, not only are children being brainwashed from their first years in the education system with a creepy Queer Theory agenda, a distressing number

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Fund Mike King!

Fund Mike King!

Dear Editor The extent that the government has failed our young people knows no limits. * school attendance and achievement. * kids living in cars and other disgusting environs. Plus the big announcements with no follow through. A Government scheme to get counsellors in schools is on track to achieve less than

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Principals Don’t Like Trustees Who Don’t Think like Them

Principals Don’t Like Trustees Who Don’t Think like Them

The Principals Federation is worried by the number of parents standing for school boards who are opposed to measures aimed at minimising the spread of Covid-19 such as face masks and vaccinations. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of

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They Are Teaching Them What!

They Are Teaching Them What!

familyfirst.org.nz We were contacted by a mum whose 12-year-old daughter and classmates (aged 11-12) were exposed to the disturbing material below. We apologise for the highly offensive content in this post, but THIS IS WHAT YOUR CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN ARE BEING TAUGHT AT SCHOOL! Please know that we

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Media Hit Job of the Day

Media Hit Job of the Day

Principals warn the election of school trustees with conspiracy-driven views will be devastating for schools. RNZ Questioning the effectiveness and safety of vaccines makes you a conspiracy theorist according to this RNZ article. The article smears by association by using Philip Arps as an example of a typical conspiracy theory-prone

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Education Outcomes Are Not Determined by Decile

Alwyn Poole innovativeeducation.co.nz mthobson.school.nz alwynpoole.substack.com/ I have just finished a data process on the leavers of every high school in NZ from 2021. The NZ psyche is that if you are from a poor home you are screwed. Not even close. For upper-level achievement,

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How They’re Coming for Your Kids Pt 2

How They’re Coming for Your Kids Pt 2

As exposed by City Journal’s Christopher Rufo (See the BFD), the public school system in Oregon in the USA is pushing a radical queer theory indoctrination on children from kindergarten on. This should be no surprise to BFD readers. We’ve already exposed the sinister “Mates and Dates” programme

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Thou Shalt Not Teach Unless You Do as You Are Ordered

Thou Shalt Not Teach Unless You Do as You Are Ordered

Helen Houghton New Conservative co-leader With all the talk of bullying at the governmental level, the below letter from the teachers’ council must be exposed; an organisation threatening teaching staff with disciplinary actions for not toeing the line to their ideology is a fascist institution. Teaching Council – Comment On Question

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How They’re Coming for Your Kids Pt 1

How They’re Coming for Your Kids Pt 1

If you’re wondering how we got from “what two adults do in the privacy of their own home is their own business” to Drag Queen Story Hour and “Kink for Kids at Pride”, you need to understand two things. Firstly, the left have opened their minds so wide that

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