Why don’t we see truth like this spoken on the NZ legacy media?
Australian Education specialist Dr Bella d’Abrera appeared on the show “Outsiders” recently and said schools are not educating students but training them to be left wing activists.
It is quite obviously a criticism that applies to NZ schools too, but you won’t hear anyone saying that here. Probably because legacy media gate keepers are in bed with the education unions and therefore won’t provide a platform for anyone to express such views.
Students from a very young age are being taught
– Climate change fear mongering
– Revisionist/ woke history.
– Critical theory, social justice and sustainability dogmas that intrude into every subject.
While kids’ heads are filled with this cultural Marxist junk, real skills have steadily deteriorated. In the 2022 PISA results, reading is 28 points lower than in 2000. In science it is 26 points lower than in 2006. In maths it is even worse, with a 44 point fall since 2003.
Slideshow demonstrates consistently declining scores in Maths, Reading and Science.
The interview ends with the question “what kind of citizens is our education system turning out?” Answer- “dumbed down citizens who hate their own country, their own society and their own history.”
If this worries you, (as it should any responsible parent/ citizen), then tell your local MP.
Better still, get on the local school board yourself and take it to the educators directly. We the people cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the Ministry of Education’s deep political corruption.
THE REDBAITER on X 
7 responses to “Schools- training houses for left wing political activism”
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It starts at kindergarten age
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Having been on a few “School Boards” in NZ, — I never saw that I had any influence on the curriculum at all. Religion was still enforced on the kids & staff in many different & subtle ways, — especially part-maori so-called ‘religious world views’ were sacrosanct, — and if the principals & teachers wanted promotion, they had to join in the garbage trail and suckup to the school inspector regime.
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“I never saw that I had any influence on the curriculum at all.”
Interesting comment. I was thinking that if enough parents took more of an interest and were more critical that they could force change from a grass roots perspective. It is what is happening in the US.
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Quite right.
It started from the 1960s onwards and was well under way by the 80s. By
the 90s I was writing abut it in the then Dominion, the Ch.Ch Press, Ian
Wishart’s INVESTIGATE and elsewhere. It got my books, including those
for young readers, blacklisted by the left-wing children’s literary
mafia in this country (they told my then distributor they “hated’ me
(her words, not mine) and were going to take it out on my children’s
books by doing just that. A long story
A lot of what happened in the education scene can be found in my Book
“The One Hundred Days – Claiming back New Zealand – what has gone
wrong, and how we can control our politicians”, available from my
website http://www.amybrooke.co.nz
National aren’t going to be able to reform education. e.g. an hour a day
spent writing (writing what?) is useless. It was done in the 80s (called
“Process Writing,) bored children senseless, and accomplished nothing in
relation to learning the tools of the English language. Grammar and
syntax were foreign territory to most teachers I encountered. They
still are. But as George Orwell pointed out, those who can’t write well,
can’t think well. And muddled thinking suits the state very well.
Most of the teachers I encountered were semi-literate, if that, and it’s
got even worse. English has become issues-focused, as you point out –
nothing to do with learning competence in how to use this important
language well. And nothing at all to do with the study of great
literature, and great poetry.
The Ministry of Education has long been under Marxist control, and
there’ll be no possibility of reform until it’s abolished.
None of the National Party Ministers have been any good at all since
Merv Wellington, who was very good value and wrote a book about what was
happening.
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Yes Amy, I was an avid reader of your publications at that time and they had a serious influence on my thinking. I agree with pretty much all you say on education and National’s probable failure to fix it. I wrote an article sometime ago regarding one of these “green left” immersion camps masquerading as a school. John Key and Paula Bennet visited ii for a review. They came away singing its praises, even making a video to congratulate the pupils and staff. No damn idea. (although I am pretty sure Key has always known what he was doing. He and Luxon both captured by the same globalist forces).
(actually about 25% or more of my posts have been focused on the dire state of NZ education. I consider it a prime cause of NZ’s present deplorable social condition)
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You’re quite right about the dumbing down of our education system and its reorientation – not towards academic excellence, but towards left-wing issues and propaganda. This has very much contributed towards New Zealanders being very much short-changed, intellectually – which is basically a social crime. We can see the results, too, in our lack-lustre and lamentably ignorant politicians, themselves a result of the same deterioration in teaching standards, and a curriculum long under attack.
Moreover, it was very odd that Hekia Parata tried so hard to shut down the excellent Salisbury School in Nelson, a residential school for adolescent girls offering them sanctuary from troubled backgrounds, and dedicated staff.
Parata was apparently close to John Key and strenuously denied that her husband’s ill health was the cause of her early retirement, a story Key kept pushing, in spite of her denial. But then Key’s strange affiliations and his repeatedly embarrassing a waitress by pulling on her ponytail hairdo did not endear him to a number of New Zealanders, nor his attempt to seemingly oblige his Communist Chinese contacts by removing the Union Jack from our flag. His premature departure from politics also raised eyebrows.
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It’s very much in the names. Names which follow the basic tenets of euphemistic PR, Lies and Spin.
1) They are not “progressives.” The name is a facade, a mask over evil. They are really regressives.
2) They are not activists. Another bit of deceptive and cunning camouflage. They are really seditionsts.
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