Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Wendy Francis says the current impetus for teaching children how to consent to sex, combined with “progressive” moves to remove age of consent are terrifying for parents and terrific for paedophiles. What then should we teach them to keep them safe? The Good Sauce · Consent isn&
400 years after Galileo, a new curtain of darkness is being drawn over the Enlightenment. Scientists and thinkers dare not publish heretical texts, for fear that their careers and even their lives may be summarily destroyed by a superstitious mob and an Inquisitorial establishment. While they may not throw heretics
Proposed changes to the Education and Training Act 2020 are part of an ongoing attack on school choice by Labour, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Labour is hell-bent on a one-size-fits-all approach to our education system.” The Government is proposing to deprioritise children and
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Recently some students in Wellington skipped school and marched demanding government action on climate change. Photographs of the event unsurprisingly featured crowds of mostly young women with that look. You know, that wide-eyed earnest but naive and slightly unhinged do-gooder look which makes
Today’s revelation by the Government that there are 17 schools where fewer than 20 per cent of students are attending school regularly is just another illustration of the magnitude of New Zealand’s attendance crisis, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. Four schools have fewer than 10 per
Dunedin Mum New Zealand schools will be introducing “Aotearoa New Zealand Histories” in 2022 to all schools and kura across the country. Be sure to get the name right. It’s Aotearoa New Zealand Histories, not New Zealand history. The “Aotearoa” part is important, as is “histories”, not “history”. As
In a time of universal deceit, as Orwell said, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Well folks, we indeed live in a time of near-universal deceit. Not least that the people who pose as revolutionaries are really the Establishment – and the one thing they really hate is people
It’s official, now: everything is racist. We’re not just talking about actors inadvertently referring to “coloured people” or crime figures that show that black Americans overwhelmingly dominate crime statistics. Oh, no: nothing escapes the stain of “racism” any more. Maths, music, statues, Abraham Lincoln, chess, golf, craft beer,
Despite the Philistine chest-thumping of the CodeBros and “IFL Science” types, the Humanities are essential to saving Western culture. Or, at least, they should be. The problem is that the Humanities have been subjected to a decades-long assault by the Long March left. To the point that Humanities
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz It is great to know that many people in Australia and New Zealand are going to be free of the travel restrictions of the past year by mid-April. I know that many of you supported my petition to the government to have
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Nothing matters more for the future of New Zealand than educating our children. As part of the globalised world we have contributed towards the common good and wasted opportunities in about equal measure. Unless we now retreat to the small, isolated South Sea islands that the
Call me a reactionary, but the contemporary leftist obsession with “racial justice” seems an awful lot like a Revolution of the Envious Losers. Dispute it as they will, the modern world was largely built by the brains and sweat of white, Christian, male Westerners. The left, of course, will cherry-
Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor. Kerry has a B.A.
