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It’s All in the Science

It’s All in the Science

Page 14 of the new New Zealand teachers’ resource for the indoctrination of impressionable minds has this quote: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Environment Program’s climate body, has said for over a decade that there is “unequivocal”  evidence that the planet is warming, and

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‘State-organised Bullying of Kids’

‘State-organised Bullying of Kids’

ACT leader David Seymour was dead right when he didn’t pull his punches and described the new New Zealand climate change curriculum as ‘state-organised bullying of kids’ […] Seymour, leader of the ACT Party, said he’s concerned the curriculum doesn’t allow for students to debate the science, telling

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Children: Do Try This at Home

Children: Do Try This at Home

Page 12 of the new New Zealand teachers’ resource for child indoctrination has this conclusive experiment for children to learn about the evils of man-made CO2 and the greenhouse effect. Our resident BFD ex-science teacher has posed some questions and further experimentation for the brighter students for homework: 1. Has

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Non-satirical Image of the Day

Non-satirical Image of the Day

Here is page 38 from the new New Zealand teachers’ resource for child indoctrination into the religion of man-made climate change. With the banning of (Christian) religious education in schools, the CoL obviously felt the need for a replacement religion honouring Gaia. CLIMATE MYTH VS.WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS“Climate

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The New Cultural Cringe of Australia’s Elite

The New Cultural Cringe of Australia’s Elite

Did New Zealand also have a “cultural cringe”? For BFD readers perhaps unfamiliar with the term, the “cultural cringe” was the wide-spread belief (at least among the elites) that Australian culture was inherently inferior, to British culture especially. Literature, music, painting – it was all supposedly better if it came from

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EDUCATION: Politikiwi Election Promises Tracker

EDUCATION: Politikiwi Election Promises Tracker

Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician popularity tracking

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Pronouns etc

Pronouns etc

Redline The Council of Disobedient Women John Fenaughty is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. In a recent column Fenaughty suggested that school teachers should use students’ “correct names and pronouns (e.g., he, him, they, them, she, her, etc.

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State Sanctioned Grooming in the Classroom

State Sanctioned Grooming in the Classroom

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World describes a future “World State” where children are inculcated with lessons on sex and class consciousness, where “erotic play between children” is a core component of their education. Huxley intended his work as satire, but in the Clown World of 2019, it’s becoming

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Australia Reaps the Outcomes of Modern Educayshun

Australia Reaps the Outcomes of Modern Educayshun

Australia once led the world in education standards. Then we had the Long March through the institutions. Australian education became “progressive” and “inclusive”. The “latest pegagogies” and “21st century learning styles” were embraced by education bureaucrats and teachers’ unions alike. And the results are in. Australian education rankings have steadily

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Labour’s Infrastructure Promises: Smart Politics or More Hot Air?

Labour’s Infrastructure Promises: Smart Politics or More Hot Air?

Labour announced that it will spend $400 million on schools; they will fast track some of its infrastructure projects and they will borrow to do it, thus loosening the Budget Responsibility Rules that they have adhered to so tightly up until now. In other words, the 2020 election campaign has

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NZQA Exam Questions Portray Unbalanced View of Farming

NZQA Exam Questions Portray Unbalanced View of Farming

Press Release: National Party Todd Muller NZQA needs to front up to concern that has been created by questions in their exams painting a one-sided picture of New Zealand’s farmers, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Todd Muller says. “Students who sat their NCEA level three English exam were tasked with

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Oh This Is Too Funny: Victoria Academics Are Our Crybabies of the Week

Oh This Is Too Funny: Victoria Academics Are Our Crybabies of the Week

Well boo-hoo-hoo!  Victoria University academics are our crybabies of the week as they now realise the true cost of their climate change / Green nonsense. “Academics are grumbling over Victoria University of Wellington’s five-point emissions reduction plan saying its goal will inevitably come from staff members’ pockets.” stuff.co.nz/

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