Articles by Dave

Voluntarily dealing with Government departments isn’t really my idea of a fun time, so it was with a heavy heart that I contacted the Ministry […]

I wasn’t quite sure what to do next. I’ve been advising people on either financial decisions or internet marketing as part of my business for […]

So yeah. What can you say in response to that? This blog is part of a story about my experience with religious education in my […]

So this is the response I got from the Board of Trustees, two months after the meeting. It’s almost as if they didn’t take in […]

After the meeting with the Board of Trustees, I thought that there were some things that were fundamentally misunderstood by them. So I put together […]

After the initial pleasantries, tea, biscuits and chat about the weather and how all schools have the same smell of squashed bananas and kids feet, […]

The meeting with the Maungatapere School Board of Trustees went ahead on 19th August 2015. The last time I was in a school staff room, […]

At this point, I really thought that the school was just uninformed about the facts and that if I was able to explain to them […]

My first point of contact was my Daughter’s teachers. I’ll say in advance that teachers are between a rock and a hard place when it […]

When my Daughter started at Maungatapere School, we filled in an enrollment form. I was surprised to see that there was a yes/no option for […]