Former MP and current host on Reality Check Radio Rodney Hide has publicly criticised Wakatipu High School for age-inappropriate sex education content aimed at his 13-year-old daughter, a Year 9 student.
Hide, a parent at the school, was denied the opportunity to present his concerns to the school’s Board of Trustees after nearly 12 months of seeking a meeting, culminating in a contentious standoff at the first board meeting of 2025 on February 17.
Hide’s grievances stem from the school’s Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) curriculum, which he says promotes explicit sexual content to minors, including discussions on anal and oral sex, consent exercises for 13-year-olds, and the use of graphic materials like pairing cards and condom demonstrations on wooden models.
He argues that the curriculum, based on the “Navigating the Journey” resource, fails to promote abstinence, downplays the legal age of consent, and prioritises pleasure over family values—content he and many other parents consider “highly inappropriate” for young teens.
Last year, Hide pulled his daughter from the RSE classes after receiving what he calls a “misleading” email from a school staff member.
The email described the course as “compulsory”, despite Section 51 of the Education and Training Act 2020 making RSE optional.
When Hide requested the teaching materials to provide informed consent, he was denied access due to copyright restrictions on the purchased resource.
Undeterred, he obtained a copy of “Navigating the Journey” himself and was alarmed by its explicit nature, including scenarios involving sexual assault and recommendations for sex toys and “ethical porn.”
Hide sought to address these concerns directly with the school’s Board of Trustees, which is legally responsible under the Education and Training Act 2020 for adopting and consulting on the health curriculum every two years.
After months of delays and excuses—“they were too busy last year, they said try us next year,” he noted—Hide secured a 10-minute slot at the February 17 meeting. Intending to record his presentation for other parents’ awareness, he confirmed with the New Zealand School Boards of Trustees Association that public board meetings can legally be recorded, a courtesy he extended to the school principal and board chair in advance.
However, shortly before the meeting, Principal Oded Nathan emailed Hide to prohibit recording, a stance reinforced by the Board’s Chairman, who cited Section 131 of the Act—allowing boards to act in the school’s interest—and privacy concerns for board members.
Hide dismissed these justifications as “rubbish,” noting that the Association laughed off the privacy claim, as board members, as officials of a crown entity, have no expectation of privacy in public meetings.
The Board then introduced a new rationale: the presence of a 16-year-old student representative made discussing sex education “inappropriate.” Hide countered that this was ironic, given the school’s willingness to teach similar content to his 13-year-old daughter.
Faced with an ultimatum—present without recording or not at all—Hide attended the meeting’s first half but refused to speak unless he could record. “I wanted to memorialise it for all parents,” he explained outside the school, where he later filmed his intended speech. In it, he outlined the curriculum’s failings: its inappropriateness for minors, the lack of informed parental consent, and the board’s breach of consultation duties under Sections 51 and 91 of the Act. He highlighted graphic examples, such as exercises pairing terms like “anal sex” with descriptions and videos promoting sexual experimentation, including advice on using dental dams and lube for anal sex—content the principal had assured him would not be shown, yet which Hide argues reflects a broader unfit curriculum.
Hide’s stance aligns with Education Minister Erica Stanford’s recent declaration that the RSE guidelines are “not fit for purpose” and will be withdrawn by term’s end. He urged the board to adopt “wholesome and truthful” alternatives and demanded transparency for parents, a right he insists is both moral and statutory.
“Parents are entitled to know what’s being taught to their children,” he said, vowing to continue raising awareness about RSE content in New Zealand schools.
A two-part video of Hide’s experience was uploaded to social media today by Let Kids Be Kids.
Well handled Rodney. I admire your patient, unswerving approach to challenge the issue. From this parent to you – thank you.
I support you Rodney on this issue. It has to stop.
Where are the parents why are they not supporting Rodney?
Do kiwi parents now want their kids groomed in this muck? disgusting.
Exactly. Acquiescence and/or non compliance by the people to these ‘contracts’ is giving the state permission to proceed. Where the hell are the outraged mamma and pappa bears to this filth?
I am with you on this Rodney.
Over the last few years we’ve had so much liberal woke rubbish pushed down our throats by paid off media and politicians who were not acting in the best interest of their citizens . Even though it looks like change is occurring in Trump’s America it seems that NZ education still wants to behave like authoritarians and dictate how children in other people’s families should be bought up. It is truely stunning the direction taken around sex education. Gender/trans fluidness being pushed, pronouns, drag queens in libraries, books that openly encourage sexual experimentation in ways that really put a lot of idea into kids heads, and the way these are being presented encourages and adds a sense of entitlement, of ‘normalness’, inviting them to go down that path. How on earth can that be considered sensible? I read in a UK paper today, where a now old man told how his school principal in primary school had sexually abused him and how it had messed him up for a number of years because he had been encouraged to feel it was ‘normal’ that it affected him afterwards. I feel many kids are going to lose focus as they have to navigate their lives through the very suggestions of what they are being taught.
Personally, I think this is all to do with the influences of the World Economic Forum who want to reduce the parent/child bonds in order to better step in and take over global management/control of society like farmed cattle. Anyway, sorry to ramble on, but yup, I agree, I think schools should stick to teaching the subjects not open up doors to young impressionable minds, especially when bad acting teachers can further the damage.
100%
Yea, always the same devious ones
https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/what-books-did-the-nazis-burn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kentler
Just found this. Never too old to learn !!
This is why every parent should home school.
Given the detail of what the teachers are telling the kids, the teachers sound like a bunch of paedophiles telling under age kids how to jack off, have advance sex with each other and the share details of their experiences back to the teacher.
Imagine if i was a aged man telling a 14 year old girl how to have anal sex with another kid? Or a gay male teacher doing the same to a boy., a lesbian having the same discussions with a girl.
What come next? Yeah, that what i thought.
It is a police and court matter.
This is horrific. I have been following this since mainstream media doctored footage of Kellie Jay Keene and lied to the NZ public to froth up some rage. As the rest of the world wakes from this nightmare, as useual NZ is dragging it feet.
These people are not just in the schools- they are also in the Health Care Sector.
When our 18 y/o daughter went for a GP visit, she was diverted to a Nurse Practitioner who was a lesbian.
That NP began asking “What do you identify as..” and “Do you feel safe at home?” plus “Are you attracted to other girls?”.
When the NP came into the waiting room and called our daughter’s name, all three of us got up to go with our daughter, but the lesbian NP became irate and stated that “The father has to wait out here!”..
After our daughter put this trained DEI-hired lesbian in her place by reciting the NZ Human Rights Act and the NZ Patient Rights Law, the lesbian NP then dismissed me and my daughter from the room.
In other words, the bitch tried it on…
And, the same creature has written several books on lesbian sexual identity and sexual practices.
We never did see a GP…
My husband later went back and filed a formal complaint with the ‘Management’ of the Health Practice, but the pink & purple-haired dike with tattoos and shrapnel in her eyebrows and a nose ring was still lurking about. However-
They never pulled that stunt on us ever again!
Noteworthy is that we saw all of this shit coming down the political, social, educational, and economic turnpike years ago, which is why we home-schooled. We experienced a short time in the Primary School setting, where our child was assaulted with a 2X4 , was attacked by a group of unruly boys, and had experienced hateful ‘politically-correct’ parents who were destined losers living out their miserable lives.
The final act was when the boys began flashing their little cocks at our daughter, and exposing their spread-open buttocks.
When we confronted both the teacher and the Principal about this, they chose to ignore the behaviours.
We immediately pulled our daughter out of the system, called the MoE and we had our Home-schooling Exemption within 72 hours.
If you are married / partnered, and have children, then maybe one will have to work day shift, and the other night shift to insure your child can be home-schooled, and partake in activities with other home-schoolers and engage in ancilliary activities.
Get your children OUT of the system of public schooling, and also OUT of private schools where the abuse is often worse!
Hold your ground Rodney. You have decency on your side. We are watching a revolution taking place in the States. Woke is in the crosshairs. Strong conservative values are in desperate need in NZ.
I thought Child Sexual Grooming was a crime in this country. MOE needs to face appropriate charges then.
Just fire them all immediately
Well done Rodney! Keep it up and well done to your brave daughter also. Anyone going along with this is a groomer.
Parents!! Look at the sex education that are teaching your little children. Yes from 5 year olds up. Pedophiliac and sexual deviancy is being normalised. And family values and marriage are being thrown out the window.
Thank you Mr Hide. Thank you for standing up for humans. Thank you for standing up for human children. Citing ‘copyright issues’ is the lowest of the low where this material is concerned as it is most probably produced by an AI assisted publisher and as we all know, AI gets it’s ideas from all sorts of avenues and bilge ways. If a human being is going to claim copyright on this so called ‘educational’ material there should be some transparency around their state of mind, also their political and or religious affiliation. Promoting anal and oral sex is a perversion; anal sex is rape without the consequence of a pregnancy and a step away from bestiality. Lulling children into a false sense of security with cartoons and globohomo illustrations is perhaps not technically criminal but if parents were to see the material firsthand there would be a definite change in what the ‘law’ meant. The reality of syphillis, gonorrhoea
and scabies, amongst other things, is most likely not even adressed for fear of offending some nematode or spirochete.
Well done Rodney. There is no place for this kind of sick material in our schools. That is a parental concern. Teachers need to stick to the basics why we send our children to school, to learn English science maths, not this groomer crap. If there are kids with sexual identity crisis needs then they should see the school counsellor in private. Take this crap out of our schools NOW.
So are other parents happy with this “filth” being taught by “state educators” at our taxpayer funded state schools?
The state can only get away with this crap by acquiescence, compliance, non-pushback, a don’t rock the boat mentality.
This filth would be gone by lunchtime if outraged mama and papa bears rocked up and confronted the state school head on.
Where the hell are the outraged mamma/papa bears?