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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Barbara McKenzie Wellington Mayoral candidate stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. The Victoria University of Wellington Students Association (VUWSA) recently issued a defamatory press statement to the effect that they were ‘uninviting’ me from their mayoral debate, due to my ‘racist and transphobic views’, while also
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young
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
