Wanganui Girl’s College Student Bled From Ears – updated

Further details have emerged of the sickening attack on a 15 year old Wanganui Girl’s College student, Robin de Jong,  that we reported on on 20 March. See Another School Attack Hospitalises Student Video of the assault shows another pupil of Wanganui Girl’s College pushing her victim to the ground, kicking her in the back…

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…

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…

Bullying Rife In NZ Hospitals

The NZDoctor.co.nz website reported today on last night’s Wellington forum on the subject of burnout in the medical profession. Experts said that doctors in New Zealand aren’t good at giving each other the support and affirmation needed to avoid burnout. Furthermore, hospitals are rife with bullying Hospitals rife with bullying “A bullying culture exists at…