This is part three of a series of articles that exposes the ideology behind the New Zealand Mates & Dates programme. Our Guest writer reveals what they don’t want New Zealand parents or the general public to know. *First published February 2019 * Part one: The Truth about Mates &
As I asked recently on The BFD, is it time to bulldoze the universities? It was mostly tongue-in-cheek – but not entirely. Universities have reached a point where they are little more than job creation schemes for middle-managers and left-wing indoctrination camps. Administrators outnumber teachers and researchers;
We keep thinking that the world cannot get any more stupidly ‘woke’ but, as Einstein reportedly said, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” The latest idiocy comes from the USA (naturally) where a poor petal might be upset if
This is part two of a series of four articles that exposes the ideology behind the New Zealand Mates & Dates programme. Our Guest writer reveals what they don’t want New Zealand parents or the general public to know. *First published February 2019 Part one: The Truth about Mates
“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling” Thomas Sowell. For all the high-minded talk of teaching “critical thinking” and “creativity”, the
Alwyn Poole innovativeducation.co.nz In an affluent country like New Zealand children are in material deprivation for one of two reasons. Either their parent(s) are not earning/receiving enough money in a relatively high-cost nation or they are not spending what they have in an effective and
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This NZ teacher covers the complexities of gender and sexuality issues so well I feel we could all benefit from seeing her address in its entirety. She does not speak from a Christian perspective but mainly from sound pedagogical principles ie good educational practice. Here is a link to a
This is part one of a series of articles that exposes the ideology behind the New Zealand Mates & Dates programme. Our Guest writer reveals what they don’t want New Zealand parents or the general public to know. *First published February 2019 Mates & Dates Part one: Biology doesn’
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.
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
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
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
