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
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
familyfirst.org.nz Another superb response (and pushback) from Bethlehem College. Read below. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your
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
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
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
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
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
Helen Houghton Co-leader New Conservative “Activists are targeting our children with harmful ideologies. Not only through indoctrinating kids with anti-biology teaching on gender, but they are now attacking religious schools like Bethlehem College for their beliefs. This has to stop,“ says Helen Houghton, a former teacher and New Conservative co-leader.
Family First 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 surgery
