MICHAEL LAWS AND ELIZABETH RATA discussing a new bill that Laws says will "destroy NZ's education system"
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- Jun 20
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Below are links to two Platform podcasts from yesterday, June 19.
The first is an interview of Elizabeth Rata by Michael Laws about the proposed Education and Training Amendment Bill. Rata, typically exercising restraint, says she was genuinely "shocked" by this bill.
The second is Laws' post-mortem on the interview and assessment of what the proposed legislation would do.
Important: Use the links to take you direct to the Platform where you can view and listen to the full podcasts.
Elizabeth Rata interview here
Michael Laws' further reflections here
I found this comment from Benjamin Franklin - olde style it may be, but still relevant 400 years later
“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you will have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society”.
School attendance in NZ is very poor, and particularly by maori and pacific islanders. The more maori centric curriculum and these measures of te ao maori have been changed/ changing for many years now. Has it made a jot of difference to attendance? As far as i know it continues to deteriorate. Youve got to turn up in order to be educated…We also have maori immersion schools for those who want their children to be taught in this way. A bit like having maori TV channels with poor viewing stats, but they have to ruin the others too because we all have to suffer. If we wanted to watch maori tv ( they often have a lot of great englis…
There is no place on God's green Earth that this Maori wonderfulness belongs in.... except in the mind of those that are already indoctrinated.
Our education system is there to teach our whanau the basics of mathematics, reading and writing comprehension. Nothing more.
It does...and I mean this from my heart sickens and saddens me that this Maori wonderfulness is seen as fit to undermine and destroy the education of our most precious ones, our children by dint of making them believe in a principle that is ill founded, doesn't do anything to advance their learning, and is there only to make them think in a particular fashion. As a 1/8 th Maori parent I'm alarmed.
Why so? Because to…
Express you displeasure at this racist indoctrination of our children by writing to
Minister of Education: Erica.Stanford@parliament.govt.nz
Associate Minister of Education: David.Seymour@parliament.govt.nz
Probably a waste of time, but apart from voting this lot out at the next election (and who wants the alternative), it's about all we can do, and if they get enough negative feedback they may do something about it.
Bureaucrats! Unelected and corrupt- put in place under Ardern’s regime and he’ll bent on continuing the HePuapua indoctrination. Fire the lot and start again. Carry on down this path and National - Coalition are stuffed. No question!