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Today in Academic Stupidity: Let’s Scrap English!

Today in Academic Stupidity: Let’s Scrap English!

Every day, it’s as if Einstein and Orwell collaborated on a pithy quote: “Two things are infinite: the universe and the ability of intellectuals to believe foolish things”. The latest — though certainly not the last nor, sadly, the least moronic — eructation of academic cretinism is a proposal to scrap

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Free Press

Free Press

Free Press ACT Party The Haps ACT has reached another polling high, of 13 per cent according to UMR. David Seymour is preferred Prime Minister for 14 per cent of voters. The Government has questions to answer about Afghanistan. Who decided what when? Were the translators’ applications rejected for good

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4yr Olds Can Change Gender

Family First familyfirst.org.nz Children as young as four will be able to change their gender at school without their parents’ consent under guidance introduced in Scotland. Any pupil who decides they want to switch gender must be supported by teachers following recommendations given by the Scottish Government. Primary

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Skools Is Gettin’ Dumberer

Skools Is Gettin’ Dumberer

Once upon a time, a high school diploma was something to be proud of. After all, most people left school well before finishing a diploma because there was a plethora of well-paying jobs available without one. It’s no exaggeration to say that a high school diploma had back

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Maori Myth Is Not Science

Maori Myth Is Not Science

Ross Meurant hobsonspledge.nz Ross Meurant, B.A M.P.P. resigned from the police at inspector rank in 1987 to enter Parliament as a National MP. Today he is Honorary Consul for Morocco and trustee and CEO of commercial assets owned by absentee Russian investors. As a former detective

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Missionaries of Doom

Missionaries of Doom

Why do our children want to self-harm, commit suicide and need the help-lines? Most of the problem for our youngsters is the ill-informed parent, the garbage constantly being announced from the government, irresponsible news broadcasters, a woke education department and the misinformation flow of lies and false

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Are NZ Schools Guilty of Conversion Therapy?

Are NZ Schools Guilty of Conversion Therapy?

Are New Zealand schools potentially in breach of the Ardern government’s proposed ban on “conversion therapy”? As revealed by Waikanae Watch blog, and reported on The BFD, two photos of classroom materials used in at least one New Zealand high school are decidedly creepy. The material, given to 14-

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A Superb Video Dissection of Critical Race Theory

A Superb Video Dissection of Critical Race Theory

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Last September President Trump issued an executive order which banned instruction in critical race theory in government agencies and institutions which had federal contracts. He wanted to combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping. On his first

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A Creepy Case of Grooming inside NZ Schools

Waikanae Watch has published two photos that they found on social media: allegedly, pages from a New Zealand High School. They contain creepy and disturbing questions not only about all the made-up non-existent genders but also making 13-14-year-old students question their own heterosexuality! 1. What

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NCEA Change Programme

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Few parents are aware of the dire state of education in New Zealand. If they were, and if apathy were not so prevalent in our country, there would be a general public outcry about what is being foisted upon our children. It is bordering on

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

From a MOE e-mail sent to all staff yesterday by the Secretary for Education. […] [redacted] exemplified the importance and the strength of leadership when asked by the Committee, what stops other schools from not achieving for its Maori students, he said “they just need to make Maori achievement the

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School Boards Should Be Able to Govern How They See Fit

School Boards Should Be Able to Govern How They See Fit

Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson ACT supports school boards to decide how to their run own schools without interference. If MacLeans College, or any other school decides that a student telling a teacher to f-off after refusing initial instructions does not reach their standards and they want to suspend

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