Once upon a time, universities were places where students went to learn how to think and to open their minds. Where ideas could be debated openly and freely. Nowadays, students go to learn what to think and to have their minds closed off and cauterised. Many students are completing a
Here we go again with mask madness. “The Government is “strongly” recommending schools review and “enforce” a mask-wearing policy as COVID-19 cases rise and children prepare to return to classes after the holidays.” “Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti has written to school boards “outlining the Government’s strong recommendation to
familyfirst.org.nz “Ahoy, shiver me timbers”, the seas are getting rough for poor old Popeye the Sailor. Dating back nearly 100 years, Popeye has been the loveable, one-eyed sailor that’s instantly recognisable for his huge forearms, anchor tattoos, and trusty pipe. Popeye gets his superhuman strength from guzzling
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Truancy is so out of control and our education culture is so poor principals are admitting to literally watching kids skateboard past school on their way to bunk off, we need real change to keep Kiwi kids in school. Today RNZ reported a principal talking
Te Pukenga, NZ’s merged mega polytech, is predicting a $110m deficit. CEO (and ex-head of Auckland City Council) Stephen Town was earning nearly $700,000 per annum but is now on leave for “personal reasons”. What a mess. Tertiary Education Commission deputy chief executive Gillian Dudgeon alerted Minister of
Alwyn Poole www.mthobson.school.nz Our wonderful Mt Hobson associate principal Saira Boyle brilliantly tells the story of the reason why we established a nationwide online school. She explains the benefits and outlines the potential. The students are thriving and we are getting superb feedback from parents as well
It gives me no satisfaction to learn that I was right about nearly everything about the Covid pandemic. I claim no particularly sagacious status, of course: I merely followed the data and read critically outside the politically-mandated confines of The Science™. Very early on, no matter what the Sole Sources
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
