"Big classes work" is a stinky thing to say.
National Standards Shock #1: Big classes work. National Standards Shock #2: Nobody in the media seems to know anything about simple statistics, and christ, it's doing my head in. Bigger classes often...
View ArticleThose crazy dole-bludgers!
Humans in New Zealand who get, say, a nice pancreatic cancer or a dose of boob cancer, and are not able to work while they're undergoing treatment and trying to beat the bastard, are currently...
View ArticleReal poverty in New Zealand?
Can the poverty skeptics please stand up? I need to say something directly into your ears while gripping them firmly, almost painfully, followed by a gentle slap on the face to make sure it got in....
View ArticlePerformance pay for teachers linked to National Standards? A National disgrace.
So, schools may face "consequences" for refusing to implement National Standards? Considering the complete failure of the government to ensure any accuracy and consistency in assessment of students...
View ArticleA non-parent talks about parenting. Somewhere, kittens are slaughtered in...
When you're a woman deliberately refraining from making children, and you criticise someone else's kids' behaviour, woe betide you. Woe! It betides you! Not even worth it, bebbeh. Stab yourself five...
View ArticleUnions: more disreputable than my mum's weird little dog, or less?
My mother said today, "Thank goodness for unions. They are so necessary. Those poor people who get so abused by their employers in China, what wouldn't they give for an effective union?" She said it...
View ArticleLies, lies, more lies: LOL! Keep up the good work.
Lol @ New Zealand's Intelligence agency. Good one. You really got us trusting your integrity, we really respect you now. Big lol @ our pathetic prime minister, whose portfolio as minister of...
View ArticleMore sex, less poverty: let's make having it off cheaper.
Free contraceptives for all women (and men)? Um, yes please! If only because the opposite school of thought is toooo creepy when said with a simple frown: "Women who don't want to get pregnant but...
View ArticleGet out of the kitchen and onto your streets. Oh, and don't rape people.
Ladies, get outside, in your short skirts and low cut tops, or whatever the hell else you want to wear. Go out at night. Go out alone. Walk down dark streets. Don't be afraid. That's my public service...
View ArticleReport, report, report: my mother's story.
I've been very touched (haaaa ha... sigh) by the number of people who have shared Wednesday's post about the prolific levels of sexual harassment against women (there were around 2500 views on the...
View ArticleThe bogeyman is real. Beware.
While we've on the topic of, y'know, assaulting, molesting, raping and harassing half the population, I've been thinking about how this society perceives women. We're quite a rough composite culture,...
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Three sad posts, three sad posts: see how they run! See how they run!
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View ArticleAbusers, your time has come! Rejoice.
How the New Child Protection System Works, went the title of the article in the Herald. My heart sank, because as I read, it was like the nameless author of the article had Paula Bennett straddling...
View ArticleThank god for rape...?
Rape babies are a gift from his god, says Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. I would love for Mourdock to be allowed to experience this particular gift from his god. How pure and exquisite...
View ArticleFood additives
A highlight in the news today was Wendyl Nissen calling the food additive Cyclamate a "nasty bastard." Go, Wendyl! Sock it to them. The article speaks pearl-clutchingly of the 18 food additives...
View ArticleMPs attend hateful celebration of ignorance
These two MPs, Su'a William Sio and Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, should be dumped from parliament - literally kicked out the door on their butts with their overstuffed suitcases thrown out after them,...
View ArticleRacist teachers hate brown kids! Probably
John Morris finished his 19th year in Auckland Boys Grammar recently. In an interview with the Herald, he stated that the most important influence on a student's education is their family background....
View ArticleJJ Lawrence
This, and yet the National Party has decided not to include domestic violence in crime statistics. If people took domestic violence seriously, this little kid would probably still be alive....
View ArticleChurches, schools, and charters.
Charter schools: when the government gives money to a business or organisation that wants to run a school however the hell they like. And they get to choose what they teach. Again, more clearly: the...
View ArticleGoddamn.
A school is a noisy place on a Friday at morning tea time. Among the shrieks, screams, laughter and pounding feet all around me as I wandered in my hi-viz Duty jacket, I still heard a horrified...
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