Readers may remember one of our Migrants’ Tales – “ A Better Life for the Kids” Written by Steve, he spoke about a widespread and insidious problem within schools in New Zealand – bullying. When his children were bullied at a fee paying school the school’s way of dealing with the problem seemed to be…
There has been another incident involving a knife at a school in Hamilton, this time two students at Fairfield College were mugged by group of 4 other teen students, assaulted with an umbrella and threatened with a knife. Hamilton Police will be working with schools and the Ministry of Education to work out ways of…
People who read this blog regularly will know that one of the topics we are most concerned about is the culture of brutality in New Zealand, in all its manifest forms. We often write about bullying, both in the workplace and at school; of child abuse, violence in the home, the street and on the…
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…
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