A primary school teacher has found herself at the centre of a controversy after expressing her opinion on social media, raising concerns about the balance between free speech and professional conduct.
The teacher, whose identity has been withheld, posted a comment on a Facebook video by New Zealand First, in which she criticised the New Zealand Teaching Council for submitting on behalf of all teachers in opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill. In her post, the teacher expressed frustration with what she called the “indoctrination” within the education sector and questioned the increasing emphasis on Māori culture in schools, stating that all students deserve to be treated equally.
Her comments sparked outrage from a member of the public, who reported the teacher to the Teaching Council, alleging a breach of the Code of Conduct, specifically the principle of “manaakitanga” — fostering a welcoming, caring, and creative learning environment. The complainant demanded that the teacher undergo an “Unteach Racism” programme.
The Free Speech Union (FSU) has since come to the teacher’s defense.
In a letter to the Teaching Council, the FSU argued that the complaint was vexatious and aimed solely at punishing the teacher for her personal opinions rather than raising genuine concerns about her professional competence.
According to the FSU, teachers do not forfeit their civil liberties, including freedom of speech, upon entering the profession. They argue that the Teaching Council has no jurisdiction over personal Facebook comments made in a private capacity. The FSU further noted an alarming trend of individuals scouring social media to find opinions they disagree with, particularly when those opinions come from professionals in regulated fields.
The union called for the complaint to be dismissed, asserting that pursuing it would set a dangerous precedent that infringes on fundamental democratic rights. The complaint had no bearing on the teacher’s ability to perform her duties and that it represented an unjustified attempt to silence dissenting views.
The Teaching Council has yet to announce whether it will pursue an investigation, but the case has already sparked a broader debate about freedom of expression and professional accountability within the education sector.
One of our members, a primary school teacher, is under fire. Why? For expressing her opinion in a Facebook comment, of course.
She disagreed with the NZ Teaching Council submitting on behalf of all teachers in opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill and expressed her views on… pic.twitter.com/tRGKyUAdE7
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Free Speech Union
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Comforting to see that our education system is wholly committed to churning out bricks…
Yes, no free speech and if you dare express an opinion, you have to attend a brain washing class. Nazi Germany/USSR, here we come!
Equal Rights Under Law….THAT is how a society is supposed to work, irregardless of religion, race, creed, speech or POLITICAL BELIEF!
If this complaint is upheld and not dismissed,, then the teachers will lose the freedom of expression, thought and speech that is very important in the classroom to convey information.
This then places their profiles into a category that would mirror teacher-enforced indoctrination which were experienced in the *J3wi$h / Talmudic-/ Communist-controlled Soviet Union! (*verified from credible sources ie Aleksander Solzhenytsyn, Danzig Baldaev..)
Even some Maoris are getting tired of the bullshit that a minority of radicalised tribes are promoting. However-
It is understandable given the current government’s contempt for us all in both Maori & Pakeha,terms, this should always be ‘EQUAL RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW’ and nothing beyond that for so-called ‘*Special Groups’. (*Globalist Interests…).
Here’s a book about what a highly qualified teacher experienced in Dannevirke…
Swimming in the Cesspool
By Gregg Smith
This book tells the story of an American teacher who went to New Zealand with the intention of helping children learn the joys of mathematics. What he encountered was beyond his worst nightmares. From the US Review of Books review by Carol Davala( “I never expected to be ATTACKED for trying to make someone’s life richer by sharing my knowledge of mathematics with him, yet that’s exactly what I encountered in Dannevirke.” In vivid detail Smith recounts the verbal abuse, physical assaults, sexual harassment, and mob-like intimidation he suffered at the hands of students, parents, and the Dannevirke community. Swimming in the Cesspool is Smith’s effort to make public the truth about his own personal experience at Dannevirke High School. As the saying goes “the truth will set you free.” Hopefully Smith’s truth will serve as an enlightening resource to help bring secondary education in New Zealand to a higher ground.
492 pages, Paperback
And-
Product description
Review
“I never expected to be ATTACKED for trying to make someone’s life richer by sharing my knowledge of mathematics with him, yet that’s exactly what I encountered in Dannevirke.”
Gregg Smith never failed at anything. He attended the US Air Force Academy, earned degrees in mathematics and engineering, lived and worked in seven different countries, and even conquered the art of clowning. But his textbook style work subtitled, “An American Teacher’s Nightmare Encounter with New Zealand Secondary Education,” reveals the shocking tale of Smith’s mid-life career change, wherein ultimately the author’s ensuing teaching experience at Dannevirke High School could be classified as a catastrophic failure with a capital F.
Anyone who has attempted to bring order to a classroom of unruly students, can surely relate to Smith’s plight. The author’s candid story brings to mind the docu-drama “Dangerous Minds,” wherein an ex-marine struggles to connect with the inner city youth she’s been hired to teach. Unfortunately in Smith’s case there is no triumphant Hollywood ending. In vivid detail Smith recounts the verbal abuse, physical assaults, sexual harassment, and mob-like intimidation he suffered at the hands of students, parents, and the Dannevirke community. The incidents took such a major toll on his health and psyche, that after eighteen months he resigned.
Smith is understandably bitter about his experience. While his lengthy treatise includes documents, letters, recollections, and actual “greenies” (the forms he had to submit for disciplinary infractions), that back up his claims, the sheer volume of information speaks to his mounting frustrations. Amidst all the bureaucracy, red tape, and inconsistencies that go along with handling problematic students, Smith’s experience takes on a kind of “Alice in Wonderland” dimension, complete with the element of Mad Hatter madness. With personal anecdotes and witty sarcasm woven into his writing, he attempts to balance and rebut a harrowing situation gone way beyond his control.
” Swimming in the Cesspool” is Smith’s effort to make public the truth about his own personal experience at Dannevirke High School. As the saying goes, “the truth will set you free.” Hopefully Smith’s truth will serve as an enlightening resource to help bring secondary education in New Zealand to a higher ground. –US Review of Books
About the Author
Former teacher, engineer, computer analyst, Pentagon gopher, Air Force officer, United Nations inmate . . . What can I say in 3900 characters that would even begin to describe me? Just read the book!
Things in my life had gone relatively well until I decided to go to New Zealand and train as a secondary school math and physics teacher. Nothing in my life could have prepared me for what greeted me in New Zealand schools: verbal abuse, sexual harassment, assault, indifferent students, violence, xenophobia, and an animosity toward education that I’d never imagined existed anywhere on earth. As one of my colleagues described it, “We’re just like Jesus Christ — we come here for no purpose but to do good and to help make their lives better and all they can think to do is to crucify us.”
I’d think it unbelievable if I hadn’t lived through every nightmarish minute of it myself. The reality was actually worse — trust me!
SO…There you have one aspect of the mess that education in New Zealand is in.
And Erica Stanford knows about this book too!
So now another teacher is up for crucifixion for making a social media comment.
Oh, & BTW, New Zealand history has also been subverted…Maori were NOT the first here in New Zealand, and for the successive governments to keep this hidden away and knowledge of this prior group of restricted from the public is censorship which was enacted to appease the so-called ‘First Arrivals’, of which they were not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKd6ru71ktY&t=30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ZpaNkN6Uw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfxTqlkYEPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU5phwykQ2M
Perhaps when the date restrictions on the information ends will also mean that the White Race will have been eliminated by the Zionist who encourage Genocides, War Crimes, and race-mixing in order to ‘breed-out’ a group of targeted people that are a threat to the Talmudic plan of a Globally-based Zionist take-over of ALL humanity…!
The Covid-19 bio-weapon ‘vaccines’ seem to be doing a pretty good job in that regard…especially in 2025 as noted below…
https://web.archive.org/web/20200629182631/http://www.deagel.com/country/New-Zealand_c0148.aspx
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2020/04/10/deagel-makes-mysterious-changes-to-2025-population-forecast-for-america-as-bill-gates-launches-gran-d-challenge-the-holy-grail-of-influenza-research-and-b
https://allnewspipeline.com/Americans_Vaxxed_Lines_Up_Alarmingly_With_Deagel.php
BUT- I digress here, as there may not be a system of education in place here in the event of World War Three going nuclear, China invading New Zealand, or the next Bio-Weaponised Plandemic occurring.
We were home-schooling our children during the last Plandemic, so nothing really changed for us except for taking Multi-Vitamins, Vitamins C, D3, Zinc, and Omega 3-6-9-.
And we’re prepped and ready for the next round of bullshit the Global Zionist have planned…and once again the teachers will be unemployed, and possibly indefinitely this next time around!
“teachers will be unemployed, and possibly indefinitely this next time around!”
Yes, and “their” AI will take over, and programmed with “their” truth, lead the bewildered and compliant into “their” digital gulag in one of “their” C40 city near you.
Amazing your research on who was in New Zealand on a first-come basis, and how this is not taught in the schools. This just confirms that education here has to conform to a politically-mandated model based on hiding truths.
Look what I found after reading your research- and this might explain the wall southeast of Lake Taupo…and who may have been large enough to place such stones not just here but also in Central & South America.
https://vimeo.com/997576664
Even Maori legends mention this aspect of Gigantic people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXNfv7ltO_k
In recent years we keep seeing very brief (IF at all..) mentioning of very, very large Wakas being found, and these would have accommodated persons of ‘giant’ size, and also smaller Wakas in the areas of river banks, indicating the ‘Fairy People’ which may have manned the same Wakas.
Excellent research which seems to be free of the usual [politically-correct matrix mind-set. Thank you for exposing the truth which is laying dormant in New Zealand and Maori Societies.