You know, for a mob who are always sneering about alleged “white fragility”, the brown woke left seems to be an awfully snowflakey bunch. Just this week, we’ve had Aboriginal activists telling us that the mere name of the late Queen makes them feel “culturally unsafe”. In New Zealand,
Canadian high school says it is ILLEGAL to criticize trans teacher with huge prosthetic breasts. Canadian high school says it is ILLEGAL to criticize trans teacher with huge prosthetic breasts as it’s claimed ‘disturbed’ students are skipping her classes and school board is refusing to address parents’ concerns The
The number of children unenrolled from school has more than doubled under Labour, National’s Education spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “After five years of Labour and an extra $5 billion in education spending every year, the number of children unenrolled from school has skyrocketed to 8,500 – more than double
Few issues illustrate the yawning divide in the West between the elite and we common folk than immigration. Specifically, mass immigration and, too often, illegal immigration, from what we used to call the Third World to the West. The elite just love immigration, legal or not. After all, they get
I’ve encountered professions with more ridiculously outsized egos than teachers – but few outside the newsrooms of the legacy media. That’s not to say that all teachers are up themselves. Some of them (far fewer by the year, if students’ results are anything to go by) are even pretty
Is it time to retire the jokes and vilification of priests, yet? Is it time to start spitting on teachers, instead? Vandalising schools? After all, everything the churches were guilty of – harbouring child abusers, and covering up for, if not enabling them – and have been so harshly and rightly punished
Alwyn Poole Information Opinion Yet another misguided puff-piece on Chloe Swarbrick today to try and get the sympathy of the voter. The headline blows the article out of the water. Chloe Swarbrick on living with ADHD: “I love people. I just don’t always know how to understand them.
Mauricio Rodríguez Pons Aliyya Swaby Annie Waldman propublica.org Mauricio Rodríguez Pons is a visual journalist. Aliyya Swaby is a reporter in ProPublica’s South unit covering children, families and social inequality. Annie Waldman is a reporter at ProPublica covering education. This story was originally published by ProPublica. For Helping
The remedy for pearl-clutching is not equal-and-opposite pearl-clutching. You can’t demand free speech to defend offending one group of people, then take umbrage when you’re offended. That doesn’t, of course, mean that you can’t roundly criticise someone for being stupidly offensive. Criticising
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
