Another Mob Attack In A NZ School

After the Ombudsman’s shocking report into vicious assaults at Hutt Valley High School was released yesterday there are reports of another serious assault in a New Zealand school and inadequate sanctions taken against alleged offenders. The culture of violence in New Zealand’s schools is widespread, some would even say endemic. If you are emigrating to…

International Student Attacked At Nelson College – Updated

As the day progressed further details have been released about the alleged vicious attack that was perpetrated on an 16 year old international student at a South Island college on Thursday last week. “The arrest of two students at Nelson College in connection with a serious assault and mugging on another student at the school…

Teacher Guilty Of Assaults On Children

In the last few days we’ve been blogging about bullying, a culture of brutality, assaults on children and the controversial ‘anti-smacking’ legislation in supposedly child friendly New Zealand. In the blog about a father being acquitted  of child brutality (despite his admission that he’d tied his son by his wrist and then by his neck,…

Another School Attack Hospitalises Student

(For an update to this story read Wanganui Girl’s College Student Bled From Ears (25 March 2011) Another appalling incidence of female bullying and violence has again occurred in a New Zealand school. Following a disturbing trend in New Zealand the assault was recorded. This account appeared in yesterday’s Wanganui Chronicle A Wanganui Girls’ College student…