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Two charged following Taupō school fire

Taupo-nui-a-tia College fire
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Two young people have been charged following a fire at Taupō-nui-a-tia College yesterday afternoon.

Emergency services were called to the fire on Spa Road, Taupō, at about 2.15pm on Sunday 8 February.

As the block became fully engulfed, Police closed surrounding roads for approximately four hours while Fire and Emergency New Zealand worked to contain the blaze.

“The block of classrooms was destroyed, along with everything inside. We acknowledge this will be devastating for college teachers, students and families”, said Detective Sergeant Allan Humphries.



“Our investigators were able to quickly identify two alleged offenders in relation to the fire.”

Two youths have since been charged with arson and are due to appear in Taupō Youth Court this week.

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  1. Read into this…Erica Stanford has…I sent her the book!!!!
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15873052-swimming-in-the-cesspool
    https://www.amazon.com.au/Swimming-in-the-Cesspool/dp/1447883268
    “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.
    Can’t wait until NZ gets rid of globalist, racist NWO education after the Uni-Party is sent packing!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2QZvisrkM

  2. Reading into this I would derive at some conclusions
    Yet to be confirmed
    NZ is spiraling into a vortex of lawlessness
    Over represented as being a lesser proportion of the population
    Perfectly aligning with end of the age prophecy
    We are living under Judaism – Political Economic Religious
    Babel confusion a mixing of tongues which precedes collapse
    A house of cards built on sand
    And what are we besieged with at this low extremity in time?
    Idiot mousy faced ‘what-not’ politicians driving Land-rovers up steps with all the bells and whistles

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