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
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
PA Pundits – International Douglas Blair papundits.wordpress.com Douglas Blair is a news producer for The Daily Signal. He is the co-host of The Daily Signal Podcast at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ A teachers union in Minneapolis recently struck a deal with the city’s school district
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
Last week, Jacinda Ardern and her Labour Party re-instigated masking rules for years 8 to 12 in New Zealand schools. Going against all up-to-date scientific studies, they illogically decided that unilateral muzzling of our precious children was the best way to stop all those triple-vaccinated grannies from dying. On Thursday,
Is there any good polling news for the Democrats? Like left-wing parties across the West, the Dems could always count on education as one of their strongest issues. Not any more. New polling, commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers — one of the Democrats’ most reliable supporters — has found that
You know you’re truly a Mott The Hoople fan when you think Brain Capers was their best album. Which I do. And it is. An obscure album which flopped spectacularly – it sold about 7 copies worldwide when first released in November 1971 – and yet became compulsory listening for several
Alwyn Poole mthobson.school.nz If Phil Twyford, David Clark and Poto Williams had to resign for failures in Housing, Health and Policing then there are many more reasons for Chris Hipkins to hand in the Education portfolio. Clearly, the massive failure of the polytechnic centralisation is reason enough, based
