Revolting teenagers.

[Quartermile]

Hell yea NCEA is designed for idiots to pass but somehow some F***wits still manage to fail??

There is absoluty no incentive to excell as even if you get 'excellence' in all your grades someone who just srapes achived still ends up with the same recognition for polytech or uni, I think my spelling in alot of posts proves this.

( I ended up putting polytech or uni as I couldn't figure out how to spell turtury )

[Ixion]

( I ended up putting polytech or uni as I couldn't figure out how to spell turtury )

Dead easy. Tertiary. All y' have to do is remember that it derives from the Latin, 'tertius', 'a turtle'. The reason the tertiary institutes are so called is because , as we all know, the world is supported on the back of a large turtle. And the universities, rather arrogantly, claimed that they too supported the entire world. They're like that. Hence, tertiary.

EDIT: Of course, that was a long time ago. Nowadays we know that is not true . About them supporting the world . So they shouldn't really be called tertiary I suppose.

[Quartermile]

See you don't learn that these days in this dam PC world!!!!

[kro]

The PC train took away our corporal punishment years ago, and look what happened. The kids who never got a smack at home had nothing to fear at school either, and they became the bullies, and bastards at school. Obviously, this is not the only cause of bullying, and shitheads,

Well done to your daughter, I would have supported her 100% too, because it's not so often you see the younger people protesting because of their peers, because that would be uncool, but these teens obviously want action, and I hope they get it.

The threat of detentions etc from the school is just the headmaster not knowing how to handle the problem whilst the government has his hands tied behind his back. I would not want to be an educator today, it would frustrate the hell out of me not being able to sort out the bad eggs properly.

[Guitana]

Rage Against the Machine!!!!
I hope you encourage your daughter!! It's good to see these kids voice their concerns why should they back down if the principal has no balls he should fuck off!!!!
As for those pricks that bottled the young fella what's next kicking a pizza boys head in just for kicks!!! Fucken Mongrels!!!
You as parents should be down there protesting and backing them up two days suspension is a joke!!!
Fucken Brilliant let us know how it pans out!!!!!!!

[NotaGoth]

I don't think the schools dished out a hefty enough punishment at all..... And would say that it is more than likely that your daughter, and those who protested will be in for the raw end of the deal... And a heftier punishment than the fuckwit who thinks its ok to bottle another kid... Don't know what calling the cops would do because don't you have to be a certain age before an assault charge can be laid...?

Good on them for sticking up for themselves and their rights though... Shows your girl will definately go somewhere in life because she has the mind to stand up and speak out when need be... Same with all the others who are involved... Awesome stuff to hear...

By the way in reply to the injury, get the guy a bottle of vitamin e oil.... Been there done that... And I swear by it... Just apply morning and night... Won't make it go away but should help with fading...

[Wasp]

Hell yea NCEA is designed for idiots to pass but somehow some F***wits still manage to fail??

level 1 and 2 (5th and 6th form) i found easy enough to pass, i didnt sit 7th as my work was offering a good job.

recently I caught up with a few old school mates (seperately, not together) and none of them got UE (university entrance) and they all said about 3/4 of the school also didnt get it

so whats this about it being easy?

[Guitana]

Maybe these kids should form an angry mob and stand in a circle kicking these little fucks unconcious!!!! They might decide that violence dose'nt pay after that!!!!

[Swoop]

The newspaper reporters turned up and so did TV 3...

Watch out for those buggers, they will drive into your car given half a chance


Sounds like you have much to be proud of with your kids Terbang!

[Dilligaf]

Come one the REAL question is.... did her walk out merit more of a punishment than jabbing a broken bottle in someone's face????

[Beemer]

Come one the REAL question is.... did her walk out merit more of a punishment than jabbing a broken bottle in someone's face????

It's a sad world when it appears that the actions of kids who decided to stand up for what they believe in are deemed out of order while a kid who bottles another only warrants a two-day suspension.

I had respect for teachers when I was at school - I may not have liked some of them but I respected them and behaved myself. I never saw the level of violence or disrepect common nowadays, and it's not THAT long ago either!

A woman who works with my husband said it all yesterday - many people are growing up with a victim mentality. Whenever anything goes wrong, it's never their fault, someone else is always to blame. Hell, the family of the guy who appears to have died of a drug overdose in Levin the other day are apparently spreading it around that he was murdered! Sure takes the blame off someone taking illegal substances and dying as a result of it.

[terbang]

There have been a couple of touchey feeley meetings between students and school management that have mainly focused on placating the evils of protest on the school ground. There has been scant attention paid to a mob of shitheads who, along with a whole string of other disruptive & violent behaviour, bottled another kid. Parent and teacher support is rapidly growing as this thing grows bigger than Ben Hur (well for Waiuku). The terrible bunkers have all been marked as truant (requested by the headmaster) and their final fate is yet to be decided upon. Rachel, being the truancy person at the college, actually had quite a proud moment marking her own child as 'truant' over this matter and has also voiced her opinion loud and clear to a very out of touch (surprise surprise) school management.

Whilst this incident, relative to the big scheme of things, is a mere storm in a tea cup, it certainly highlights some of the PC stupidity in our NZ society that is making even our youth (the future) uncomfortable.

[Guitana]

Fuck em stand up for your kids right to get an education unmolested by thugs! As for the kids right to protest the last time I checked we were'nt a part of China yet!!!!!!

[Squeak the Rat]

Getting bottled at school is lower than low. It sucks that the offender will jus get a slap on the wrist.

Ditto to the above comments about your kids and your parenting tb.

[The Pastor]

So some nigga got bottled who cares.


Well we know the school doesnt!!