If you are thinking about educating your child in New Zealand, or are considering teaching in the country, you may wish to read the following cautionary blog. Despite New Zealand’s claim to be a ‘great place to raise kids‘ the country has a fierce reputation for being one of the worst countries in the world…
Yesterday we talked about knife incidents at Fairfield College and about violence in New Zealand’s school, saying that a breakdown in breakdown in family life and support at home for young people, generations of parents with no parenting skills to pass on, poverty, widespread drug and alcohol abuse, a culture of brutality and mental health…
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…
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 …
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