Credit for charter schools decision

Let's give credit where credit is due. Good on the Minister of Education and the Labour Party for taking meaningful steps to shut down the repugnant charter schools thing. Next step, get rid of the race-based total immersion schools and stop the inane headlong plunge into the adoption of the compulsory Maori language planned for all schools because this nonsense is playing havoc with Kiwi kids' learning and achievement levels.

First and foremost ensure proficiency with and fluency in our national language, English, which is acknowledged and accepted as the most dominant language worldwide.

Another positive move would be to take steps to have the Education Council correct and put right the current NZ Teachers Code, another race-orientated, unworkable aberration which is causing angst in teaching circles and loss of teachers.

On a completely different tack, the government must dismantle the private prison system which is fraught with difficulties on all fronts. After all Labour, when in opposition in 2016, flayed PPP saying it had no place in New Zealand

R Paterson, Matapihi.

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Charter Schools

Posted on 21-02-2018 17:56 | By socantor01

R.Paterson is completely wrong. Immersion schools actually educate Maori children who for whatever reason cannot succeed in ordinary state schools. He/she offers no alternative, therefore he/she is condemning those children to a low quality of life. Only by education can standards of living be raised. Why on earth kill something off that actually works?What is repugnant about charter schools? There are enough failed state schools to merit charter schools - so far no charter schools have failed; they do actually work. One system unfortunately does not fit all.


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