Skip to content

Education

Punished for Being Poor — And White and Male

Punished for Being Poor — And White and Male

As Bettina Arndt and Christina Hoff-Summers are pointing out — to the screeching fury of triggered feminist frightbats everywhere — the education is systematically failing boys. Read that sentence properly: it’s the system which is failing boys. Boys might be failing schools in ever-increasing numbers, but that’s because they’re

Members Public
A Child’s Life in a World on Mute

A Child’s Life in a World on Mute

Megan Mansell brownstone.org Megan Mansell is a former district education director over special populations integration, serving students who are profoundly disabled, immunocompromised, undocumented, autistic, and behaviorally challenged; she also has a background in hazardous environs PPE applications. Many among us weren’t our top notch picture-perfect version of ourselves

Members Public
man doing butterfly stroke

“Talent” Is Not the Measure of Success

Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1

Members Public
Abuse in Schools: Media Look Away

Abuse in Schools: Media Look Away

Mainstream media reporting on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, especially from the ABC, focussed almost exclusively on the damning accusations against churches. This was not unmerited — but the one-eyed hyper-focus of the media left the bigger picture entirely obscured. There is no doubt that not

Members Public
How Boys Are Being Punished at School

How Boys Are Being Punished at School

Anyone who’s been to school in the last 50 years will be familiar with it: Girls can do anything! Boys… well, boys can just learn to shut up and sit still. Since 1972, under the Whitlam government, Australian schools have relentlessly pursued strategies to encourage girls’ achievement in schools.

Members Public
NZ Teachers Are Looking for a Win in High Court This Week

NZ Teachers Are Looking for a Win in High Court This Week

NZTSOS New Zealand Teachers Speaking out with Science Buoyed by the significant ruling of Justice Francis Cooke in favour of the police and Defence Force on Friday, education staff from across the country are expecting a positive result for their case against Minister of Covid-19 Response, the Director-General of Health

Members Public
NZ Teachers Take Their Case to the High Court

NZ Teachers Take Their Case to the High Court

NZTSOS Inc. New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated NZTSOS Inc. (New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated) will take their case against the Minister of Covid-19 Response, the Director-General of Health and the Attorney-General to the High Court in Wellington over the next week (Thursday 3rd, Friday

Members Public
Photo Of Woman Tutoring Young Boy

A New Chance for Positive Change

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz mthobson.school.nz Key Stats on NZ Education * Our system is in long-term decline against international measures and some subjects and levels have us as the worst English speaking nation. * PISA had NZ as the worst national for in school bullying. * Biggest

Members Public
The Parents Are Mad: An Explanation

The Parents Are Mad: An Explanation

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble, Odysee or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nzIf you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our Membership options.

Members Public
person in red shirt wearing black and gray headphones

The School Omicron Can’t Disrupt

Mt Hobson Academy Alwyn Poole As articles like this are quickly multiplying … https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-school-teachers-infected-with-covid-omicron-cases-expected-to-spike-this-week/NWTWUZTKZN2OYFX5O3YARE2XHI/ … there is a very good alternative to guarantee families a high quality and disruption-free year. We have had a long term plan to provide better education provisions to families throughout

Members Public
Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day represents children discriminated against and segregated all over New Zealand. This injustice and mistreatment have been allowed to happen because our PM has made it socially acceptable for schools and other organisations to treat others as second class citizens. There is no team of

Members Public
Photo Of Woman Tutoring Young Boy

A New Chance for Positive Change

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz mthobson.school.nz Key Stats on NZ Education * Our system is in long-term decline against international measures and some subjects and levels have us as the worst English speaking nation. * PISA had NZ as the worst national for in school bullying. * Biggest

Members Public
white sheep on white surface

Why Academia Is Drawn to Fascism

Paul Frijters Gigi Foster Michael Baker brownstone.org Paul Frijters is a Professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics: from 2016 through November 2019 at the Center for Economic Performance, thereafter at the Department of Social Policy Gigi Foster, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor

Members Public
The Gender Spiders Lurking in the Classroom

The Gender Spiders Lurking in the Classroom

Remember when conservatives were mocked for suggesting that there was a “gay agenda” being foisted on children? In fact, it’s much worse: it’s a Queer agenda. And it’s being drilled into kids’ heads at every level, from pre-kindergarten on, and across the entire school curriculum. Sounds like

Members Public
Photo Of Woman Tutoring Young Boy

A New Chance for Positive Change

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz mthobson.school.nz Key Stats on NZ Education * Our system is in long-term decline against international measures and some subjects and levels have us as the worst English speaking nation. * PISA had NZ as the worst national for in school bullying. * Biggest

Members Public