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Safe Schools Please!

New Conservative Party Helen Houghton Education Spokesperson The celebration of PRIDE week in child centred environments has led to the victimisation and humiliation of at least one Christchurch teen last week. We ask how many other children out there are feeling uneasy because some schools forced them to participate in

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Quit the Ideological Warfare, Minister

Quit the Ideological Warfare, Minister

Rather than keep fighting ideological battles, the Government should be focusing its on energy on making sure our kids are at school in the first place, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Education Minister Chris Hipkins is now wanting to stop schools from streaming pupils, a practice that has

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3 Reasons Homeschoolers Often Become Entrepreneurs

Hannah Frankman fee.org Hannah is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, and storyteller. I learned the word “entrepreneurship” when I was 12. I had just started my first business, and my mother informed me I was now an “entrepreneur.” I didn’t know what the word meant, but I liked the

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Back to School!

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Great news for my kids this week: no more grumbling in the classroom about how the planet is coming out of an ice age. They can now go full

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‘Should Be Withdrawn from Classrooms’

‘Should Be Withdrawn from Classrooms’

Hoaxes are very easy to pull off, but very tiresome to debunk. Consider the Orson Welles radio broadcast of War of the Worlds: newspapers ran wild with claims that it sparked mass panic. That is absolutely untrue, yet the hoax is still widely believed. Crop circles immediately grabbed the tiny

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NZ Histories Curriculum: The Ministry of Indoctrination

NZ Histories Curriculum: The Ministry of Indoctrination

Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. ‘[…] there are risks that, if done poorly, compulsory history in our schools could veer into the realm of indoctrination.  It is no coincidence that one of the first functions authoritarian regimes undertake on assuming power is to produce

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The Elephant in the Room – NZ’s Broken Education System

The Elephant in the Room – NZ’s Broken Education System

Helen Houghton New Conservative Education Spokesperson We are failing a generation of children in academics when schools are expected to address every social issue of the day. Many educators are fed up with the constant push to deliver more content that addresses sexuality over the critical sliding ranking of our

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Unteach Racism – Module 3 – Low Expectations

Unteach Racism – Module 3 – Low Expectations

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In previous articles, we have investigated the brand new app that The Human Rights Commission and The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand have put together. The first module was an introductory one and contained the usual fallacy of assuming disparities in ethnic outcomes are

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ACT Congratulates Ministry of Education for Policy Change

ACT Congratulates Ministry of Education for Policy Change

ACT Party David Seymour ACT Leader “The ACT Party is congratulating the Ministry of Education for taking our advice and changing its policy to count school lunches going to waste,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT has repeatedly called on the Government to count how many school lunches are going

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Students Flee New York Public Schools

People are fleeing California in droves; the Golden State has shed a net million people over the past decade. That 2.5% population decline is directly sheeted home to Democrat policies in the ultra-blue state. Its east coast cousin, equally deep blue New York, seemed immune to the California disease

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