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‘But Groomers Aren’t a Thing…’

‘But Groomers Aren’t a Thing…’

Boy, oh, boy, has the popularity of the “Groomer” hashtag on Twitter triggered the “progressive” left. The hashtag is, of course, just the crest of a tidal wave of revulsion against the ever-more-obvious, creepy agenda of the paedophile wing of the “rainbow” left. The Twitter-left have reacted with their usual

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Double Veterans on the Long March

Double Veterans on the Long March

Do the left actually hate children? We know that they like to use children — as political voodoo dollies. Whether its the Twitter leftist making up an obviously fake story about a preternaturally woke child, the hebephilic fetishisation of retarded Swedish teenagers, or the marching morons in private school blazers at

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They Don’t Like Them Fancy Words

They Don’t Like Them Fancy Words

If you’ve ever seen the classic 1962 movie of To Kill a Mockingbird (as I’m sure most of us have), you’ll probably remember Mayella Ewell’s courtroom meltdown. The uneducated, ignorant Mayella, unable to understand lawyer Atticus Finch’s polite vocabulary, assumes that she’s being mocked

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Supreme Court Strikes Discrimination Against Religious Schools

Supreme Court Strikes Discrimination Against Religious Schools

familyfirst.org.nz This is a great decision from the US Supreme Court this week which the NZ media seemed to ignore, although ironically they’re watching the abortion ruling like a hawk. US Supreme Court justices ruled that excluding faith-based schools from a state’s private school voucher programme

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Willie, William and Jan Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz innovativeeducation.co.nz/generation-skip innovativeeducation.co.nz/books-aloud It has been astonishing to read recently just how disconnected senior government MPs are with the reality of their decisions for young people, as evidenced by their press releases and comments. Starting with Associate

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Of Course Advanced Maths Is Hard

Of Course Advanced Maths Is Hard

Talk about ‘Simpsons did it!’ In one episode of the venerable TV show – back in the halcyon days before it jumped the shark – Springfield Elementary tries to empower the girls by separating them from the boys. In the girls’ ‘maths’ class, Lisa is dismayed that the maths lesson” consists of

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Why Unschooling Is the Best Way to Educate Kids

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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Why Dark Emu Was Nixed by Academics

Why Dark Emu Was Nixed by Academics

In a further blow to the already-shredded credibility of Bruce Pascoe, Australia’s wokest state has added a scholarly rebuttal of his pseudo-history, Dark Emu to school reading lists. Of course, Victoria being Victoria, they couldn’t just dump Pascoe’s work of imaginative fiction from school reading lists entirely,

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Unschooler, Entrepreneur, Prodigy: The Story of Cole Summers

Unschooler, Entrepreneur, Prodigy: The Story of Cole Summers

Hannah Frankman fee.org Hannah is a career development coach and a course instructor. She works as an advisor at Praxis and an instructor at The Objective Standard Institute. You can find her work at hannahfrankman.com. Kevin Cooper, known to the internet as Cole Summers, was taken from this

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St. George Gets the Woke Treatment

Wallace White newsbusters.org Wallace White works as an intern at the MRC culture section. He is a Student at American University studying Political Theory and Economics. His interests include philosophy, weight training, and theology, and playing his guitar. He is a member of AU College Republicans and will serve

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In Appreciation of the BFD People and Other Supporters

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz innovativeeducation.co.nz/generation-skip innovativeeducation.co.nz/books-aloud Warning Long read. 1494 words. I spent the best part of the last three days researching, reading, summarising and commenting on a range of documents relating to the education and other facets of life

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The MOE Will Tell Us What to Think

The MOE Will Tell Us What to Think

Bruce Logan familyfirst.org.nz The Ministry of Education wants Tauranga’s Bethlehem Christian College to erase from its statement of belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. Of course, it does. The Ministry has its own competing statement of belief; the gospel of diversity, inclusion and

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Is the Govt Mandating ‘State Approved’ Beliefs at Bethlehem College?

familyfirst.org.nz Warning Long read. 1743 words. Fuelled by a media feeding-frenzy, The Ministry of Education is threatening to ‘intervene’ into the beliefs of a much-respected Christian school, demanding Bethlehem College remove reference to traditional biblical marriage from their Statement Of Belief. This overarching Statement Of Belief includes a

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Why Child Prodigies in Economics Are So Rare

Chris Loukas fee.org Chris Loukas was born in Greece and is an economic journalist and the youngest member of the Greek team in the international economics Olympiad for 2022. His articles have been featured by the Foundation for Economic Education, the Mises Institute and Adam Smith Works. I was

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School Gender Curriculum Rejected – Poll

School Gender Curriculum Rejected – Poll

familyfirst.org.nz A new nationwide poll has found significant opposition to gender ideology being taught to primary school students, and majority support for parents being informed of their own children exhibiting gender dysphoria at school. There is also more support than opposition for a ban on transition medicine and

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