Ethics Backlash After Private School’s Social Media Experiment Goes Wrong. Badly.

Victim blaming results after parents raise ethics concerns about a school’s social media experiment

Worst Places to be a Child – NZ Ranked 158 out of 165 for Childhood Rights

A European advocacy group has placed New Zealand 158th in a field of 165 countries for children’s rights, putting the country on a par with much of central Africa and Saudi Arabia. The Amsterdam based Kids Rights Foundation and Erasmus University measured five key domains in the 2017 KidsRights Index:- 1. Right to Life: 2.…

Serious Incident at School Leaves 10 Year Old Boy with Severe Head Injuries. “Kids Will Be Kids”

Update 9:10pm 20 Sept 2015 Police have finally confirmed the critically injured boy had been hit in the head with an electric fence post. They’ve also confirmed the incident involved a 9 year old boy who is also a student at Sacred Heart School in Invercargill. source 18 Sept 2015 It has been just days…

14 Year Old’s Spine Broken In School Attack, Flaxmere College

We are very saddened to learn of yet another school attack in New Zealand and that it had a ‘gang’ connection. This time it was at Flaxmere College, Hastings, during recess three weeks ago and the girl is still recovering from her injuries: A 14-year-old girl is expected to spend weeks in hospital after being…

South African Teen Bullied At Mount Roskill Grammar

Hadlin Onverwacht is a 13 year old teen who left the troubles of South Africa four years ago. Unfortunately when she emigrated from South Africa to New Zealand she never imagined that she was exchanging one set of strife and tribulations for another when she became a pupil at Mount Roskill Grammar School in Auckland. If you…