Tag Archives: Chris Hipkins

Labour’s education dunce strikes again

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Kelvin Smythe

When is Jacinda going to save children and teachers a lot of hurt and Labour a lot of embarrassment and take education away from its current resident education dunce? The situation ‘Morning Report’, the interviewer Guyon, the topic charter schools … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow’s Schools’ wheel-a-go-round

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Kelvin Smythe

The lack of attention to: Leadership: you can have good leadership (no recent example in education comes to mind) and bad leadership (Hekia Parata) and no leadership (Chris Hipkins) – which constitutes an abdication to bad leadership The way the … Continue reading →

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Treachery! Part 1: The Hipkins’ swift one and the satire

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Kelvin Smythe

In what follows, I spell out briefly an astonishingly duplicitous U turn by Chris Hipkins that has horrid implications for education. These implications are examined in a further Attack! but I needed to get the message out quickly to encourage … Continue reading →

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Chris Hipkins is Peter Fraser to our time, Iona Holsted and Katrina Casey are our Clarence Beeby (can you hear the gods laughing?)

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Kelvin Smythe

This posting starts off in one direction, only to head in, perhaps lurch to might be more accurate, another. But it is held together (hopefully) by my judgement that Chris Hipkins lacks depth of feeling veering to milksop, and my … Continue reading →

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