labour's problem with education

There is so often a controversial headline, and the first sentence of the story reads "an academic from..."

As soon as I read Academic, I stop reading. Academic is the definition of Academic. This one is doing a PhD, meaning she hasn't done it yet, hasn't gone through the assessment and peer review process. So basically it is an idea.
Then you read the basis of her idea, that ALL of the data is wrong. OK. So if white men are doing all the violence, how come Maori are so over represented in Prison?

Then, the great irony of this debate, the original question put to Marama was 'do you support all the violence used to shut down the women's rights speaker?', she never answered that but clear does support that violence. What a distraction....

Brian Tamaki making some very concerning statements about what is going on the public school system re brainwashing the kids on all this multiple gender nonsense
thebfd.co.nz/2023/06/13/schools-need-to-be-taught-a-lesson/
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Parents, where is your outrage at the Transgender agenda trying to recruit your kids, right under your noses, in our schools?
If you’re a parent with children or youths in a state school, I’d strongly encourage you to keep your kids home this week and boycott the Schools’ Pride Week that is being forced on our children through state schools.
The government needs to take its hands off our children. The government is trying to usurp the vital role of parents in our young ones’ lives. This Nanny State is trying to parent your kids.
It’s time for this Nanny State to go!
It’s the parents’ role to discuss sex education and gender, not the government’s through schools.
Many parents are disturbed at the content being funnelled into our schools by the perverse group called InsideOUT. InsideOUT is a government-funded group with a perverse agenda.
All parents should check out the Ministry of Education’s guidelines through their TKI Inclusive Schools webpage.
This has everything from gender neutral toilets and equitable uniform options to gender education in it and so much disturbing content for our 5 year olds. Why on earth are they discussing sexual pleasure at this age?

This story is a good example of MSM being economical with the truth, and shit-stirring.

The story doesn't say it, but this is only for primary schools. I wouldn't be expecting 5-10yr olds studying chemistry and physics. But I would expect a general science curriculum that gets them interested in the physical world around them.

In my view eri, you've been captured by the MSM. A bit of click bait, spread anger and emotion by being economical with the truth. Sure, if this was for secondary, where kids need to be studying chemistry and physics, I'd be up in arm. Its for 5 yr olds, learning about the world.

That particular story was just about primary schools.
Doesn't mean they aren't trying to fuck up everything else in the time they've got left until October.
What is slightly more concerning, and was not mentioned in that stuffed article (and reported by one D. Seymour) is that biology, chemistry and physics were mentioned something like half a dozen times, but Matarangi Maori was mentioned 56 times...

We ended up in a village on remote Fiji Island, still there.
Boy goes to check out local primary school, 30 kids from 2 villages
Comes home and says kids working much harder and smarter than his school back in NZ, which is a pretty good one.
Wanted to go back next day, now he's got more home work each night than we see in a term, filling school book fast. Didn't want to take boat for fishing trip so he could go to school.
Last 3 nights I've got a mini school in my hut with local kids working on their homework, was a struggle to get him to go snorkeling on the reef outside the door before starting homework.
This is not the story I get about the Maori kids in his class back home.
Talking to the grand parents in the village about where their kids are and what they are doing around the world is inspirational.
Maori should be ashamed of what they let their kids become, it's nothing to do with colonialism, it's their own leadership that has failed them.
Maori have every opportunity at their door yet they abuse it and waste it.
Like forest gump might say, "culture is culture does".

P.s. Weather is a bit shocking here but it's a shit load better than what we left.

Over the last 2-3 weeks our 8yr old has been on & off school with a lingering cold. So my wife picked up some exercise books & worksheets from his school to home-school him during his off days.

As a result, he zoomed ahead of where the rest of his class was in a couple of areas. When he got back to school earlier this week he showed his teacher all his work and asked for the next exercise. Her response: “You are too far ahead, you need to wait for the rest of the class to catch up.”

Which for me sums up the whole problem with both NZ education and society - we should all go at the same pace as the slowest rather than raise everyone’s game to match the fastest.