Ssshhh…while you were sleeping the academic elves were hard at work preparing entry-level indoctrination material for our Level 4 (10-14-year-old) curriculum. Yes: we have a brand new ‘School Journal’ titled ‘Ti Tiriti O Waitangi’, released, or set loose, on our kids just eighteen months ago. It’s a comic
Susan Nixon Ex-Homeschooler For over sixty years New Zealand has been implementing and in thrall to the ‘whole word‘ system of teaching reading. This sight vocabulary method, which relies heavily on guessing or memorising words based on their form or contextual clues, found its way into our schools in the
Pauline Hanson, bless her fiery locks, has a way of throwing spanners into the smugly well-oiled machine of the left-media elite. When she wore a burqa into parliament, for example, she effortlessly highlighted the hypocrisy and pomposity of the political-media class. Leftist elites clutch their pearls, but many Quiet Australians
In an exceptionally brilliant piece of bluff calling, Professor Andrew Parker of St John’s College at Oxford University trolled the idiotic students at one of the UK’s most prestigious educational establishments. Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting
The Supreme Court backs Trump plan to deny green cards to those who get public aid, in a move to prevent the Cloward-Piven collapse for which some Democrats yearn. That’s just one topic on this week’s Right Angle Lightning Round. Other topics include… * Why Democrats oppose the educational
Press Release: ACT Party “After its dismal performance on Maori issues in government, Labour deserves to lose every single Maori electorate this year”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour’s Maori caucus of 13 is a record and the Ministry is almost a third Maori. What have they achieved?
AHNZ ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz Another State lolly scramble with your money, another academic corruption of what should be natural and authentic. No community, no culture, no language, requires or pursues million-dollar professorial task forces to sift through accidental trivia for 3 years. No commercial enterprise would pay $666k to
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Editor’s note: Part Four is the final article in the series and it is a detailed analysis of the ‘myths’ about Climate Change and their supposed refutations by Jock Allison. An analysis by Dr Jock Allison of flaws in the science presented, focusing on the
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Activism (Sections B and C) The purpose of the curriculum is not to educate: it is to terrify the children, then prime them for activism. The argument for an urgent need for activism is as follows: * Greenhouse gases, generated by human activities, such as CO2 and
It seems that some on the left are panicking that their death-grip on taxpayer-funded academia may be slipping. Former Labor senator Kim Carr (a notorious head kicker for Labor’s Socialist Left faction) is horrified that Australia’s Education Minister wants taxpayer money spent, not just on Australian research, but,
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org How does it make you feel? One of the strangest aspects of a supposedly scientific subject, where one would expect the application of some objectivity, is the emphasis on and encouragement of emotional response. This is introduced as early as lesson two with ‘The Feelings Splash:
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org ”Education” continues its slide into indoctrination and brainwashing. The Cultural Marxist’s “long march through the institutions” is now substantially complete. @JWSpry There’s a disturbing whiff of totalitarianism, in that this secular religion permits no dissent Karl du Fresne, Dominion Post, January 23, 2020 state-organised
This month Education Minister Chris Hipkins changed the school system to discourage religious teaching in State schools. Previously it was an opt-out system but he has changed it to an opt in system. The opt-out system requires effort only from those opposed to religious instruction for their children but now
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Oxford definition of propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view. The Prime Minister and her government coalition partners have opened the classroom door to vested interest groups to spread their propaganda. One such
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