It’s common to blame the woes of the current generation of teens and younger kids on their teachers. Not entirely without reason — there are too many numpties who opt for teaching because they’re too dumb to do anything else. Unscrupulous universities have steadily lowered requirements for undergraduate teaching
Alwyn Poole Dear Iona Despite sending the previous two letters directly to you (Part One, Part Two ) I have had no response. I will keep this one brief in case detail is a part of the problem. Results summaries are beginning to emerge from last year’s exams/qualifications. Auckland
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
Alwyn Poole At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched for Year 1 – 13 students throughout NZ. The school is thriving with great staff, families investing time and attention into their children, and a very high-quality teaching and learning model. Another aspect we are doing – and
Nathanael Blake mercatornet.com Warning Long Read. 1517 Normal people believe that sexualising children is predatory. But, in light of the recent passage of a Florida bill that would restrict instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools, it is clear that many activist educators and their political
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Why are the left so infuriated by Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill? Why are they lying and calling it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill? Nowhere in its text will you find the words “gay”, “homosexual”, or “transgender”. What the bill does say is that it “Reinforce[s]
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Warning Long Read. 1634 words. “Cancel culture”, “callout culture” or “woke politics” – these trends are often accused of reducing political debate and diversity of thought in society. And it’s on university campuses where this is said to occur the most. Yet until now, it hasn’
OR: The Root(beer) Cause of the Housing Crisis, the Crime Stats, Oranga Tamariki, Our Lack of Productivity, Growth of Prison Population, oh, and Our Significant Education Decline … Is a Lack of Oat Milk. Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School
NZTSOS Inc. New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated NZTSOS Inc. (New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated) is SHOCKED and DISAPPOINTED that their challenge of the mandatory mandating of the Education Sector has been unsuccessful. Mike Shaw Deputy Chairperson of NZTSOS said. “We are shocked that our
History is not without irony, it seems: a government whose leader’s only job prior to politics was selling junk food now sees fit to finger-wag New Zealanders about junk food. But it shouldn’t really surprise anyone. It’s just another excrescence of the same arrogant bureaucratic class and
From the earliest days of the pandemic, I noted a curious and deplorable phenomenon: the young were being sacrificed to save almost solely the very, very old. I called it “the Moloch Option”. Not long after, I wrote that we had moved from Moloch to Tlaloc — the Aztec deity who
Dr James McDowall ACT MP New research showing the apprehension Kiwi academics have to speak freely at New Zealand universities highlights the urgent need for my Member’s Bill requiring tertiary education institutions to protect freedom of expression. Curia research commissioned by the Free Speech Union showed almost half of
