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Monthly Archives: August 2014
PPTA executive and dirty education
In 1990, as most regular readers of this site know, I left the formal education system to play my part in fighting the education implications of Tomorrow’s School’s neoliberal, managerialist philosophy and, in particular, the organisational representation of that philosophy, … Continue reading
A grinning money man
In a recent posting, https://networkonnet.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/corrupted-by-the-sleaze-and-dirty-tricks-to-a-different-kind-of-new-zealand/ I wrote the following: ‘New Zealand, after six years of Key, has been corrupted by the sleaze and dirty tricks to a different kind of New Zealand. Behind the glossy image promoted by Team Key … Continue reading
Labour needs to spit it out – and other election pointers
How is the campaign going for those opposition parties intent on changing the government (that is Labour, Greens, and Internet-Mana)? On the whole quite well, but Labour has to be more direct in spelling out of its policy. The Greens … Continue reading
New Zealand, after six years of Key, has been corrupted by the sleaze and dirty tricks to a different kind of New Zealand
Some have likened events to Watergate, and adjusting to the scale of New Zealand, that is not outlandish. Just as Nixon had no need for dirty tricks to be re-elected, neither did Key. But given how Key and National viewed … Continue reading
Tom Parsons and PPTA executive should get ready for a surprise
A very quick posting. Pretty trivial I suppose but a punch message coming up for Tom Parsons of SPANZ and the PPTA executive. Congratulations and thank-you to the NZEI, and my admiration to principals for staying on course despite various distractions (you … Continue reading
John Key, Jono and Ben, my grandchildren, and me
Yes – unbeknown to John Key, we have a history, culminating with Jono and Ben. From my first glimpse of Key, I formed a view of him that has remained unchanged. I don’t want to put a label on it … Continue reading
Key can’t sack Collins because Slater would spill the beans
We have an extraordinary situation: a prime minister can’t act against a minister because if he does, a blogger will spill the beans on him. It is only my view, but I would stake my life on it. Cameron Slater … Continue reading
Is John Key, politically, a dead man walking?
There are two threads in this posting: a number of the corruptions considered in the preceding posting have been further exposed and would benefit from further comment, and there are a number of associated issues deserving attention; and how has … Continue reading
Dirty politics: but then most of us knew from education he was a bully
I’ve just finished the book. It is a nightmare. This is not dirty politics as in politics as usual; it is dirty politics as in politics most unusual. National and its supporters come across as Cullen’s ‘rich pricks’ with a … Continue reading
Nigel Latta: we needed insight and we got a blarney-spouting leprechaun
Nigel Latta on school education: What was that? The things Nigel Latta got right about New Zealand school education were also what is wrong about New Zealand school education. He got it right that we had many skilled and passionate … Continue reading
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