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In the article "The Side Eye: Kings and Commoners" the author discusses the

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New Zealand has been known to have one of the biggest social divides. This has not been changed over the years due to the ongoing poverty cycle. In the article “The side eye: kings and commoners” we get a story based around two schools going into a lock down. One is a wealthy school, and the other is a decile 1 state-school. The issue is centered at the state-school, but the media has used the neighbouring wealthier school to capture attention. This article has bought up an impacting point that has challenged my societal view. Personally, I believe that all children (no matter what their upbringing or background is) should have a fair shot at life. When the media portrays one group of people more important than another, it damages the child’s self worth, and the view that they have on their peers. This is no way to break the poverty cycle. If children are brought up around media portraying them as “lesser” than the wealthier side of the divide, a change will never happen.

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In the article about the lock down it shows that Kings College is the one that is getting aimed at instead of Ōtāhuhu College who were the school that were really in danger. The reason that Kings College became the image of the lockdown is because it is a more high decile school that provides a better education, to the public eye at least. While Ōtāhuhu College is more of a low decile school with 74% of their students being pasifika. This shows that New Zealanders like to make sure that we look like a “pure” country with no violence and shunned everything that's not under that carpet.

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Looking at the article on the New Zealand schools in Auckland going into lockdown, it shows that to gain people’s interest they feel they have to broadcast the best school. They decided not to really talk about the school that was actually at risk. Cashmere does the same thing in a way. They focus on the sporting teams that are the best and the classes that are the best without showing support to the lower teams and more challenged classes. To gain people’s interest I don’t think you need to focus on the ‘best things’ like Kings college when the actual issue was based in Otahuhu. New Zealand as a whole should be focused on all children,  not just the ones that go to a certain school or play at a certain level for sport. We need to think how great it is that lots of children are playing sport, not just how great it is that somebodies child plays for the top team.

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In the article “a tale of luck and privelage” the author opens our eyes to the societal issues in new zealand surrounds bring gang back up violence and up bringing of no children. The author states that because of his friends upbringing in a unsafe and unloving home, his life was already mapped out for him. New Zealand knows about these problems but we continuously choose to ignore them. I think that New Zealanders know it’s a tough problem and it’s too complicated to deal with, and that’s why we ignore it so much. As a young person living in NZ, I have seen first hand the difference in unfinished and the way it shape so you as a person. My friends and I all have very different upbringings, I live in a christian household with strict parents. It’s made me grow into a more careful and sagebrush person, where as my friends with less strict parents are more willing to take risks and sometimes that isn’t a good thing, and they can get others and themselves hurt.

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In media, only one side of the story is shown, that is usually the most interesting side for the reader. in the article "A tale of luck and privilege" we get to hear about the side of the story for the criminal and how different his life has been compared to his neighbor.  in this article we see Rory, the criminal has had bad experiences in his past, usually media would not report on this side of the story. In another article "Guilty verdict in tinny house robbery trial" we get to see another side of the story which tells the reader only about how Rory committed all his crimes and portrays him in a negative way.

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In the article 'A tale of luck and privilege' we get an outsiders perspective on a man that is deemed a 'criminal.' The media portrayed him as a burden to society as he his actions consequently landed him in prison, however, the article talks about how that mans path was set to him from birth. Having a good start in life can pave the way for good opportunities and a good lifestyle, families that are poorer or have suffered great hardships are more likely to fall into the deep hole of illicit behaviours as they have no other choice.

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In these articles, we see the differences between the two schools and how the media is willing to publish about them. With the two schools King's College and Otahuhu College, the media posted about King's College being the one where there were armed forces swarming the private school. Even though it was Otahuhu College that was swarmed by armed officers the media still continued to place King's college first because it is one of the most expensive schools in Auckland and is a private school so it would cause more people to read the article than if it was Otahuhu being placed first in the title, because it is a decile 1 state school. It tells us on how New Zealand society is, from only looking at articles worth the read even if they weren't important compared to ones that may not be the most popular but the most important

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Both articles display the features of misrepresentation and discrimination. Otahuhu College was on a lockedown with a potential threat inside the school, and King's College was clearly in far less danger but yet, the King's story was the one the public seemed to care about. Even if people don't realise it, society is all apart of this misrepresentation of rich vs poor, and of black vs white. Put simply, the reporters wanted their stories to be popular and high up in the headlines, and to do that, the felt the need to highlight the 'prestigious' college rather than the neighbouring college that was actually in danger.

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These articles reveal certain aspects about New Zealand society, but the thing is we mostly already knew these, it's just we choose to ignore them. just because our survival is based on judgments and assessments, we all have our own personal ideas about who, and what is around us , the media is a source we like because it feeds us new information and this information is what we can use to asses new things in life, in the context of what this reveals about NZ, it shows that people are still partially racist, not in the ways of black and white, but separate people in to their associated groups and how important they are, "the side eye, kings and commoners is a great display of this concept, and how the richer and more social supporting school was first to hit the headlines, rather than the poorer, and more culturally diverse in new Zealand context. and just to prove the point even more at the end of the article it states that "no Kings college students were harmed" i don't know if that was a clever way for the author to further display his idea but, it sure makes the reader think how he is . Just looking at someone we make assessments of their cultural background and, what they look like based on our own experiences, just seeing a "black" person walking down the street the majority of people will strike him down as a person that we need to avoid because, the fact that his "country" and "culture" has been changed in our minds as a danger, just because the media has portrayed it that way, the truth is new Zealand is still as judgmental as any other country.  You can see this wherever you may choose to look in the world.

- FC

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The lock down article reveal about New Zealand society, media chose to presented King's College but not state school that also lock down.

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In the article of the lock down it has stated that king's college is more presented as they have a better educations and is one of the best schools in Auckland and have kind of ignored Otahuhu as it is a lower decile even though both schools are right next to each other. It's talked more about King's college even though its was in muh less danger than Otahuhu college