Y'know, while I certainly rolled my eyes at McLeod's column, it really didn't compare to the burning desire to stab Michael Laws to death that surfaced on reading his. My favourite part is, after he complains about the "petty fascism" of making schools safe for even the most vulnerable among New Zealand children, Laws goes off in search of the real deal:

"we are also obliged to suffer dissolute parents. Their kids are completely stuffed the moment that they are conceived. Their genetic stock virtually guarantees failure and, despite that first miracle, they are destined to shuffle from one misery to the next.
Sadly, that misery is also inflicted upon the rest of us. Born to no-hoper mums in ofen dysfunctional whanau, the kids' lives posses an abject inevitability. They're behavioural problems long before any school entertains them. They're also dumb."


Oddly enough, and still on the same page, Tze Ming Mok's column was fairly informative and thoughtful.