UNICEF Report. New Zealand Languishes at the Bottom of the World for the Health and Welfare of its Children and Youth

Here’s another one of those ‘New Zealand is best at‘ surveys you won’t see on any NZ immigration related web site. This is one aspect of the New Zealand lifestyle they don’t want you to know about, but its one that will shock you to the core when you live there and experience it first…

Aranui High School, Christchurch Knife Attack

Many times we’ve covered reports of armed invasions and violence in New Zealand’s schools but this is the first time we’ve heard of adult women storming into a school armed with a knife. In a disturbing escalation of school violence, combined with a heightening of aggression in the nation’s young women, we hear that three women allegedly went…

Teacher Beaten Unconscious By Student

We’re saddened to  learn of yet another act of violent savagery in a New Zealand school. The Herald has published an account of a south Auckland schoolteacher who was beaten unconscious in a school corridor in Mangere at lunchtime last Friday. South Auckland school teacher was beaten unconscious by a student as he checked corridors…

Bullying In NZ Schools – “A Harsh Lesson”

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…