korero

PC-ness gone wild. So wild in fact that we cannot protect our children from abuse in the classroom. Abusive teachers are protected by the privacy act. Our children are not safe. Last October, the Herald revealed teachers with a range of problems - including convictions for battery of an 11-year-old, importing ecstasy and supplying cannabis to minors, sexual abuse of a teenage girl, and admitting to sex with students - had been allowed back into classrooms.
I am perplexed. Who allowed these people back into the classroom?
"The requirements of the Privacy Act have been cited by the Ministry for refusing the information we have been seeking for many months. This information is essential to the Council to enable it to track the employment of teachers, such as those cited in the Herald on Sunday (22 October 2006)."
Meanwhile, the rights of these "teachers" take precedent over the safety of our children. It seems the government will make it easier to keep an eye on these people at last. It is their fault the Privacy Act can be used to protect these predators in our schools. Hang on, did I just say "our schools".

"since the 'girls can do anything' advertising campaign in the 1980s, women had received more help to succeed in education and the workforce." this a quote from scots college head graeme yule. education most definitely favours girls. i know this as i am a recently retired teacher. i am still teaching. i have just found a way to do it that does not involve govt interference and the govt predilection for pc-ness. i am a coach. explaining to junior coaches at my work that boys need to be coached in a different manner than girls is a part of my job. the main problem i can see in teaching, is that the job is not attractive to men. schools are full of female teachers. boys are reacting negatively to this feminisation of males. just watch the trouble that female coaches and teachers have with boys. who can fix this? its obvious. men are the ones who must teach boys how to be male. learning this from a woman is obviously very confusing.