I have been going on about Gloriavale for years. When I launched a campaign a few years ago to force the closure of Gloriavale School, the most common response was: ”aww…. Leave them alone, they are not doing any harm” etc. For clarity, I was calling for the closure of the school because it taught a loony creationist curriculum, thought boys and girls should leave school at fifteen and educated girls to cook and do the laundry (plus babymaking, lots of lots of it) and boys to work on the farm. I thought if the children could just go to their local state schools, they would be able to avoid the indoctrination into the ‘only’ lifestyle in favour of making their own choice. But sects such as Gloriavale do not like choice. The Education Review Office was, at the time, as useful as a chocolate teapot in declaring that the school produced the education demanded by the school community and supporting its continuance. No thought for the children.