In the drawer this week:- Scuba Nurse looks at whether we should be letting children do gun play, given the news* the some kindergartens are allowing their attendees to sit for pretend gun licences.
- Spent is a short online game where you get to make choices on a limited income and see if you can make it through a month on next to nothing. I ran out of money on Day 30 and had to put my pet down, and I had the good fortune to pass a typing test right at the start which meant I had a job. Give it a go.
- Donna Wynd and Susan St John write in the Herald about the reality for working parents, in response to the Wonderland fantasies of the Welfare Working Group.
- QoT points out the inconsistencies in the latest poll anti-choicers are trumpeting supports their stance.
- Idiot/Savant highlights criticism of the Government's cuts to Pasifika language resources for teaching.
- Darien Fenton argues that good employers don't need bad laws, in light of today's attacks on workers' rights.
- And finally, the Greens commend the Government's commitment to recycling.
As always with these posts, please feel free to share links to posts by yourself, or others, that you think may be of interest to readers.
* Meaning it's news to the media, but actually it's been going on in some centres for at least five years, and there has been some really healthy debate about it amongst ECE teachers for ages.
3 comments:
Wynd and St John's piece is great, but I made the mistake of reading the comments. The privilege and naivete exhibited are astonishing.
As usual Lindsay Mitchell,a real informed commentator on welfare in NZ calls Wynd and St John on their selective BS.
http://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2011/03/attacks-on-wwg-report-continue.html
As usual, Lindsay Mitchell complains that people with actual qualifications to speak to issues around welfare systems and poverty are getting more screen time than her, and decides to pretend that their choice to focus, in a single column, on a specific situation raised by the WWG report somehow constitutes dishonesty.
Fixed It For You.
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