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Alleged Paedophile Ring Uncovered in Mexico Schools

Alleged Paedophile Ring Uncovered in Mexico Schools

As I’ve asked before, why aren’t we spitting on teachers? That, after all, is what has happened to priests, even in Ireland. In the media, priests are continually painted as predators in robes. Jokes about priests and altar boys are the stock-in-trade of every second-rate “comedy” festival (even

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Paul Goldsmith – Labour Kills Second Language Bill

Paul Goldsmith – Labour Kills Second Language Bill

Labour’s move to kill a National Member’s Bill to give primary and intermediate schools the tools to teach a second language is narrow-minded and misses a golden opportunity to equip our kids with greater language skills, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. Labour had previously supported National’

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Ridd Case Heads to the High Court

Ridd Case Heads to the High Court

Peter Ridd’s case against James Cook University will be heard by the High Court at the end of this month. The case is a potential landmark judgment on academic freedom. But, considering it’s framed against a background of climate alarmism and allegedly dodgy science, don’t expect the

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Govt’s Denials about ‘White Privilege’ Don’t Stack Up

Govt’s Denials about ‘White Privilege’ Don’t Stack Up

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s denials about ‘white privilege’ being taught in the classroom don’t stack up. Jacinda Ardern and other Ministers say teachers are being taught about ‘white privilege’, but that the idea won’t make its way into the classroom. That’s nonsense. A student

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Seven Out of Ten New Zealand School Students Found Home Learning during Lockdown Better, or the Same, as Learning in School Normally.

CensusAtSchool Co-director Rachel Cunliffe Seven out of ten New Zealand school students say that learning at home was the same or better during lockdown compared to learning in school normally, the latest results of a nationwide survey suggests. The insight comes from CensusAtSchool TataurangaKiTeKura, a non-profit, online educational project that

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Unteach Racism – Module 2 – Low Self Belief

Unteach Racism – Module 2 – Low Self Belief

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In our previous article, we evaluated the first module of Unteach Racism, finding it to be worthy of an F- grade. Today we are moving on to module 2 entitled “Low Self Belief”. We come to this second module with lower expectations, given the pure

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Ask for an Honest History Curriculum

Ask for an Honest History Curriculum

Hobson’s Pledge Trust We agree that the draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly political stories from our past, as a new petition on the ACT Party’s website states. The draft curriculum’s “three big ideas”

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White Privilege Lessons Not Going Away Soon

Hobson’s Pledge Trust Despite denials from our Prime Minister, there is no sign of any retreat from in-class race-shaming rituals intended to eliminate racism, but which end up making some children feel guilty about their skin colour. On Monday, ACT Party leader David Seymour called a Ministry of Education

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

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ACT Releases Submission on NZ History Curriculum

ACT Releases Submission on NZ History Curriculum

Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson and former teacher The Government’s New Zealand history curriculum threatens to indoctrinate students in left-wing ideas and requires a radical rewrite. ACT has today released its submission on the draft New Zealand history curriculum and set up a petition calling for a complete overhaul.

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