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Mystery Surrounds African Youth Stabbed In Avondale. Update, Indian May Have...
Neil Reid of the Sunday News has written an intriguing article about the allegedly fatal stabbing of an African youth in Avondale at 9pm on Wednesday. Normally news such as this filters through to the...
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Avondale Schools In Lockdown After Gunman Sighting
The day after the news finally broke that an Indian youth had been seriously injured in a brawl outside of Avondale physiotherapy on Wednesay night, a gunman was allegedly seen in Avondale this...
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Another Teacher Stabbed in NZ Classroom
Another male teacher, 53 year old Steve Hose who teaches maths, has been stabbed by a student with a knife whilst teaching. He has two daughters The assault allegedly took place in front of a class of...
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NZ Teachers Need More Power To Protect Themselves
Following yesterday’s stabbing of Steve Hose, a 53 year old maths teacher at Te Puke High School, the Secondary Principals Association says that teachers need to have more power to protect themselves...
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NZ Teachers Facing More Abuse
We’ve often written about both youth and school violence on this blog because it’s increasing in both severity and prevalence, it affects migrants with school age children and those who move to NZ to...
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Another Knife Incident At Fairfield College, Hamilton
There has been another incident involving a knife at a school in Hamilton, this time two students at Fairfield College were mugged by group of 4 other teen students, assaulted with an umbrella and...
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Belfast Teacher Encounters Troubles In NZ
Today’s Western Leader is carrying a story about Northern Irishman Roy Lilley, principal of Bruce McLaren Intermediate who was attacked by a hammer weilding youth whilst he was at work on Waitangi Day....
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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...
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HVHS Report. Ombudsmen Want Compulsory Anti-Bullying Programmes In NZ Schools
February 2009 we wrote about a large scale brawl at Hutt Valley High School and a series of disturbing serious assaults at the school which resulted in parents calling for an investigation by the Human...
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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...
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Lynfield College News Video
Social networking sites to blame? Mother is angry that the youths were able to get onto the school grounds. See also: Toran Henry and Hutt Valley High School For today’s posts click herePosted in...
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Another School Attack, This Time In Feilding – updated
This is thought to be the fourth such attack this week in what is turning out to be an alarming increase in school violence and disorder in New Zealand. Feilding is approximately 20 km north of...
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Are Girls Safe At School?
From the Bay of Plenty Times by Carly Undy: “An alleged beating at a Bay school is a reflection of a rising trend in violence among young females, experts say. A Western Bay parent is challenging...
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Hundreds Of Teachers Assaulted In NZ Schools
It’s good to know that the days of investigative journalism aren’t quite over, yet, in New Zealand. The Dom post has used the Official Information Act to find out how many school staff received ACC...
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A Better Life For The Kids
Continuing in our series of Migrant Stories: first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. Today’s tale arrived via a message left on this blog. This is...
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“Christchurch, New Zealand, Sucks”
In the Vox Pop series we look at posts from around the web where people talk honestly about living in New Zealand. Todays entries are taken from the Christchurch forum on Topix. “Christchurch , New...
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Second School Kid Stabbed Today –“We’re Giving Up” Says Strive Community Trust
There’s been a second stabbing at an educational establishment in New Zealand today. The first was was at Pacific Christian School where a 10 year old was stabbed in the head (more details here), the...
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Child King Hit by Stranger in Schoolyard of Van Asch College, Christchurch
Parents moving to New Zealand looking for a better life for their kids may be surprised to hear that their children are more likely to be exposed to dangers they would not have otherwise experienced....
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Dangerous NZ: Bomb Alerts, School Bus Wrecked by Mob Led by Mum, and Another...
Bad news if you’re emigrating to New Zealand thinking it’s a safe place to raise children, it’s not as safe and crime free as you’ve been led to believe More than 30 schools were evacuated en masse in...
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Reputations on the Line as Secrecy Surrounds ‘Incident’ Involving Pupil at...
Secrecy is surrounding an incident involving a young pupil at Brown’s Bay Primary School last Wednesday – 6 April 2016. Whatever happened it was bad enough for the Ministry of Education to be brought...
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