The class A dickhead panda-NZ representing Labour with its broke and woke BS.
Same dickhead who wanted Ryman to go bankrupt by loading up on more debt.
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Same Hipkins who cannot answer ‘What is a woman?’
https://youtu.be/kqpbLbfoWJY
Appalling woke behaviour by Hipkins.
Then there’s this ….
Same Hipkins who eagerly welcomed Kiri Allan back to work to shut down the controversy around allegations of her bullying.
Well, she ended up driving inebriated and had to be tracked down by police dogs after trying to run away from the scene of the crash.
And who not only resisted arrest but threatened to take the jobs of the police officers who brought her in.
https://resources.stuff.co.nz/conten...ptimize=medium
Appalling judgement call by Hipkins.
Same Hipkins who accepted Kiri’s assertion that she never shouted or bullied anyone? To have that now confirmed by a newbie junior MP!
Some countries which have banned and/or are banning mobiles in schools :
France
Australia
Netherlands
China
UK
Malaysia
Singapore
Bravo on National for taking the initiative to follow the recommendation of UNESCO and the examples of other countries to ban mobiles.
Meanwhile, Hipkins is very very happy to support the Education Department's proposed curriculum to dumb down the teaching of science by removing all references of physics, biology and chemistry.
In the land of the blind, the one eye man is king.
In the Aoteroa of the future, the half wit will be a Labour PM because the rest of the population are illiterate peasants - that's how Hipkins and Labour want NZ to become.
The point I was making is, there is zero need for the government to mandate this. Schools at all levels are already managing this. Does National really believe this is going to win them votes? It is a nothing burger in the grand scheme of things right now. You of all people should realise that, given the long list of more important things they need to address if they become government. Why on earth have they made this a priority when they should be announcing policy on things such as the Aged Care crisis for example? Oh, I know ... its because they have no policy.
May be small burger to you (& Hipkins who does not know what a woman is) but as per the UNESCO report, it is a big deal to lift the academic achievements of all students. And it is easy to do as other countries like Australia has done.
Leave it to the schools and we will see the disparity emerge in the future between the schools which ban mobiles vs those which don’t. And of course, society will then be blamed as usual by the woke schools and woke leftist politicians.
How about Labour supporting the revised school curriculum of dumbing down science? Think that will help the brown population to lift their academic achievements?
Hipkins answer to "define a women" question thrown at him by shock jock Sean Plunkett, seemed perfectly thoughtful & intelligent, - "in terms of gender identity, I think people define their gender identity for themselves."
Who could argue with that?
And also Hipkins said "Ultimately I'm very aware this is an emotionally charged issue for some people, and as leader, I don't want to contribute to that."
Sounds incredibly thoughtful, honest, sensible & sensitive to me.
Biological sex & gender identity are not always the same thing, ones determined by chromosomes, the other by social construct.
Obviously Transgender & non-binary issues are a very emotionally charged issue for posters like Balance & many others who have taken offence at Hipkins answer, but as most people understand, its just about impossible to have an opinion on these incredibly complicated issues without causing offence to someone or groups or even groups within groups.
Does anyone know how Christopher Luxon answered this question? Or has he even been asked it?
This might be incorrect but from my knowledge it's only the private schools that choose to have no phone policies. There may be no need for government to mandate the phone ban if there were free choice between schools aka no zoning rules, but for most people they are stuck in the schools that their zoned for.
Ideally the best schools with the best policies would benefit receive monetary benefits but it doesn't really seem to be the case. One modern school (modern teaching, no real restrictions on students) was built near me which cost an absurd amount of money and it has for the most part failed horribly. I think that school would benefit with a no phone policy.
Australian states have been implementing the no mobile in school policy since 2020.
Nothing but positive feedback.
One must wonder why school principals in some schools are so opposed to it. Likewise, the woke leftists who prefer instead to dumb down the school curriculum so that there’s no mention of physics, biology or chemistry. Interesting, isn’t it?
Why are you, a male, so fixated on this!
And actually what is a woman or a man is a social construct, it's the biology that is 'messy' and many people are born with biological sexual ambiguity.
How about you & Sean Plunkett be 'real men' and stop telling women what they are & aren't.
Attitudes like yours make me sick.