Is it time to retire the jokes and vilification of priests, yet? Is it time to start spitting on teachers, instead? Vandalising schools? After all, everything the churches were guilty of – harbouring child abusers, and covering up for, if not enabling them – and have been so harshly and rightly punished
Alwyn Poole Information Opinion Yet another misguided puff-piece on Chloe Swarbrick today to try and get the sympathy of the voter. The headline blows the article out of the water. Chloe Swarbrick on living with ADHD: “I love people. I just don’t always know how to understand them.” ADHD
Mauricio Rodríguez Pons Aliyya Swaby Annie Waldman propublica.org Mauricio Rodríguez Pons is a visual journalist. Aliyya Swaby is a reporter in ProPublica’s South unit covering children, families and social inequality. Annie Waldman is a reporter at ProPublica covering education. This story was originally published by ProPublica. For Helping
The remedy for pearl-clutching is not equal-and-opposite pearl-clutching. You can’t demand free speech to defend offending one group of people, then take umbrage when you’re offended. That doesn’t, of course, mean that you can’t roundly criticise someone for being stupidly offensive. Criticising is not the same
Having known and indeed being related to a number of teachers, I’m well aware that report writing too often consists of finding creative ways to say, “Could do better.” Oh, and not say, “Your kid’s a little shit and I hope never to see him/her/they again.
Olivia Boyd familyfirst.org.nz Olivia Boyd is our teenage guest writer who is very passionate about supporting the pro-life movement and ending human trafficking. Upon completion of her high school education, she intends to study law and psychology. She has an interest in human rights and social psychology and
Tell me this isn’t a socialist government operation: parents are finger-wagged that they can’t be trusted to provide healthy lunches for their own kids. So, in the true spirit of socialism, kids’ lunches are collectivised. Double-plus good, eh, comrade? Well, no: double-plus barf. The collectivised canteen lunches are
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there
As the days slowly wind to the next Victorian election, the state opposition is finally remembering what it means to be an opposition. More interestingly, Liberals are going after the Andrews government on what are Labor’s traditional strengths: health and education. Going for Andrews’ jugular on health should be
Alwyn Poole innovativeeducation.co.nz mthobson.school.nz alwynpoole.substack.com I have been a teacher and educator in the New Zealand system since 1991. From mid-1998 I have been in the private sector side of that provision. That is a sector where if you are not doing a good
lens.monash.edu Image-based abuse, also commonly known as “revenge pornography” involves three main behaviours – non-consensually taking or creating nude or sexual images, threatening to share or distribute nude or sexual images and non-consensually sharing or distributing nude or sexual images. As many as one in three people across Australia,
Michael endoftheamericandream.com America’s public schools have never been worse than they are right now. Test scores are falling, and many of our kids cannot read, write, speak or do basic math effectively. As a result, each level of education has had to be “dumbed down”, because each year
Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and Computation.
Debbie Lerman brownstone.org Debbie Lerman has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. Yesterday, September 1, 2022, The New York Times had a front page story entitled: “The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and
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
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
