Poor thirteen year old Tyler Corbett-Gaber held his boxer dog Troy as it died in his arms. The dog, who had been trying to defend they boy, had been strangled by an intruder that broke into their family home in Christchurch on Friday and wrecked the property, leaving it looking like a “war zone”. Our…
What is it with knives in NZ schools right now? there’s been a veritable rash of knife incidents over the last few weeks. A few days ago we wrote about how the village was failing the child when kids used violence to sort out their differences, with some parents even scheduling fights for their daughters …
We’ve often written about both youth and school violence on this blog because it’s increasing in both severity and prevalence, it affects migrants with school age children and those who move to NZ to take up teaching positions. It also has a big impact on the local communities in which migrants live. 777 teachers were…
The Wanganui truck driver who admitted killing Mia Pusch through careless driving has had his licence suspended for just a year and has been ordered to pay a measly $5,000 in reparation to her family (source) Mia Pusch, 19, was a German tourist who had been backpacking through New Zealand on her bike “pinkie”. She…
New Zealand is a great place to raise kids. That’s the reason that many people cite for wanting to relocate their families to New Zealand, or they’ll wistfully opine that NZ is the place where ‘kids can be kids for longer’ but how realistic are those aspirations and what’s life really like for young people?…
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