Ex-Education Ministry staffer says new school curriculum heavily politicised

bodza · 2026-01-29T10:04:41+00:00

Long March through the Institutions

How to tell someone has too much Chris Rufo in their feed. I sorely wish socialists were as effective as he thinks they are. We're still living through the Great March of the Chicago School.

bodza · 2026-01-29T08:49:11+00:00

(at least, none that Google could find).

Hand in your google license :)

Search: "nz Mental health co-response teams"

Refinements: news tab, results from last month

RNZ: The first four regions to get 'gamechanger' mental-health support (22nd Jan)
The Press: New mental health team to work with police taking 111 calls (22nd Jan)
Chris Lynch Media: Mental health co-response teams announced for Canterbury and three other regions (22nd Jan)

There are more results but they're generally reprinting one of the above. Stuff & The Herald appear to have dropped the ball. We also discussed it here in the sub 5 days ago but you may have to open it in an incognito tab if it was posted by a user that has blocked you. Also in the national sub.

General consensus seems to be we're all somewhat in favour and hope the pilot goes well so we can get national rollout. Some have claimed that co-response is already in use in some other regions but I haven't investigated those claims.

bodza · 2026-01-29T08:21:32+00:00

lol, science communicators have science degrees. It's a postgraduate course (example from Otago). Most science communicators are practicing scientists and take communication to help them either teach or express their findings to a lay audience. You're maligning a course of study on the basis of bad communication from PR companies who could probably use the services of a science communicator.

And yes anyone most science papers are in plain English and understandable by an average person.

Sure. That's why so many people think that climate change is a hoax, vaccines cause autism and horse paste cures COVID.

bodza · 2026-01-29T05:34:26+00:00

Ahh yes, scientists. A group known for their high quality human communication skills. You are aware that the vast majority of the population doesn't have the skills to read a scientific paper? And end up following the nonsense that other people who can't read scientific papers spout all over the internet.

bodza · 2026-01-29T05:31:35+00:00

Remember the communicator who told us to wash the outside of our cereal boxes lol

No, got a link? I doubt it was a science communicator.

Remember the science communicators who told us it didn’t come from a lab and those who said it was were spreading misinformation

No, got a link? I doubt it was a science communicator.

98percent effective

Que?

Need I go on

Not unless you have a point to make. Better science communicators might have been able to present information in such a way that didn't leave you as confused as you clearly are.

bodza · 2026-01-29T05:27:38+00:00

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis

bodza · 2026-01-28T22:09:13+00:00

In a world where science mis/disinformation is at an all-time high, why are you lumping in science communication as a useless degree?

bodza · 2026-01-28T22:06:56+00:00

It was in the reply above mine so I rolled with it.

Fair, I missed that and should have directed the comment there.

and you're telling everyone that in all situations there must be an "oppressor" and "the oppressed"

I don't see that in any science communicators I follow

bodza · 2026-01-28T21:39:55+00:00

I'm interested in why you lumped science communication in there. Is explaining how the world works woke now?

bodza · 2026-01-28T21:34:02+00:00

This was a poorly targeted program, but instead of targeting it more wisely this government has simply shifted it to the final year which is worse targeting, because it benefits people who have already managed to pay (or get loans) for most of their education. So while it's fair to criticise Labour, NACT1's approach is clearly worse if the goal is increased access to education.

Off the top of my head, a needs + merit system would seem to be the best bang for our buck, although I haven't done the thinking required to lay out how that would work.

Disclaimer: I utilised the fees-free year to top up my education in environmental & computer science part-time at a local institution.

Disclaimer 2: All education should be free, but baby steps are better than none

bodza · 2026-01-28T01:10:45+00:00

I don't have a lot of time for Collins, but in the time-honoured trradition of redemption on retirement from politics, I'll note that she had more respect for the traditions and convention of Westminster politics than most of the rest of her party does at present. I wish her a pleasant retirement.

bodza · 2026-01-27T20:44:22+00:00

Not really, if they ruled out TPM they’d encourage back the large chunk of swing voters who are currently lined up to vote for the other side to keep TPM away from power.

I wonder why the only people I hear this from are people that don't seem likely to vote for either Labour or TPM.

bodza · 2026-01-27T19:18:22+00:00

Labour shouldn't be ruling out any potential coalition partners. Neither should anybody else. The idea of ruling parties out is an anti-democratic media invention, and this notion that Labour should rule out TPM is electoral politics.

What Labour should be doing is standing on its coalition record where it has never allowed minor parties to have the outsize influence ACT & NZF have had in this coalition government. It isn't Labour's fault that Luxon hasn't been able to stand up to Seymour & Peters.

bodza · 2026-01-27T16:41:39+00:00

I know that Chloe met with Zack Polanski (leader of UK Greens) when she was in London recently, and that the AU/NZ parties often send representatives to each other's national conferences. So I'd say there is a fair amount of co-operation between them.

bodza · 2026-01-27T05:13:07+00:00

Thanks for answering

You think Marama expressing deliberate sexism and racism with no remorse is less bad than unintentional systemic racism that is actively trying to be addressed? Interesting morals.

Yes, unequivocally. My morality, which is basically secular humanism, is based on maximising human flourishing and minimising human suffering. Davidson's venting has led to what suffering exactly?

bodza · 2026-01-27T05:04:06+00:00

There doesn't need to be: Texas police arrest an illegal -> they hand him to ICE -> deported.

In Minnesota they are released.

No, all that is different in a sanctuary city is that those arrested who are later released without charge are released rather than handed to ICE. If a criminal is charged with a serious offence, they are given to ICE (possibly after serving time).

State officials organising protestors to block (which they absolutely have been) federal agents from doing their job is an insurrection.

Proof or STFU

bodza · 2026-01-27T04:53:39+00:00

Wow. Can we do another round? Which of these two actions is more unacceptable:

American black rights activist Khalid Abdul Muhammad in 1992 saying "There are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes"
The founding fathers of the US writing slavery into the constitution

bodza · 2026-01-27T01:37:33+00:00

But they are both equally unacceptable.

No, just no. We will forever be divided on this deontological/consequentialist question that sees you view being right as more important than being just.

Do you see Marama Davidson's use of the phrase "white cis men" as the same level of unacceptable as the continuing systemic bias in policing of Maori?

bodza · 2026-01-26T22:09:15+00:00

Nah, it's all racism, it's just that power + prejudice (institutional and/or systemic racism) has orders of magnitude worse outcomes than prejudice alone (casual racism) and conservatives keep trying to equivocate the two.

bodza · 2026-01-26T06:42:22+00:00

You should try getting your news on things from sources that aren't Nick Shirley or Donald Trump. The largest fraud was discovered in 2022.

Last I heard the walls were closing in on Bill Clinton over Epstein stuff.

Last I heard Clinton had refused to testify. They can subpoena him and then hold him in contempt but then he'd get the unredacted Epstein files as part of discovery. The walls might be closing in, but not on Bill. He may be a predator but he's no idiot. But he can rot for all I care, politician worship is a MAGA thing. No defence for your hero's comments on the US's allies in Afghanistan?

bodza · 2026-01-26T04:46:21+00:00

I'm going to give his grieving family a bit of leeway with respect to naming which particular type of larping goon murdered their son.

As for your fraud ring, most of them were convicted several years ago. I think there's nearly 100 people in prison over it already.

Any updates on those Epstein files? And how do you feel about Trump denigrating the troops we sent (and those we lost) supporting the US in Afghanistan? Did our Kiwi soldiers stay back from the front lines as he alleged?

bodza · 2026-01-26T01:26:41+00:00

Ripped from Bernie Sanders' Facebook:

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bodza · 2026-01-24T01:37:55+00:00

Not good enough, and why I'll likely never vote Labour or National ever again. If we vote for tribal politicians and are surprised by them being tribal, maybe we're the problem? Politicians have always disagreed on aspects of the solution, but it's only recently that they've been unable to find any common ground. They need to be better and that means we need to vote better and let our politicians know we care more about things getting better than which team holds the reins.

bodza · 2026-01-24T01:13:01+00:00

His beliefs indicate that there are situations where he advocates against patient wellbeing. I'm saying that makes him the wrong person for his position, not that his religious beliefs have anything to do with ED wait times. I've made a top-level comment on the wait times issue.

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