It's a single metric and it's one travel agency, albeit a big one, so it's hardly scientific and about to be published in the Lancet. But it's an insight into what might be happening and, even if it is remotely accurate, it’s a sign of several things.
Firstly, the power and necessity of Government.
Think about it - all David Seymour said was get your kids to school, harden up, we will start keeping data and we will hold schools and you to account.
Like magic, a problem, if not solved, was starting to get addressed.
A Government is leadership and leadership in many, many areas is clearly needed
Which is a depressing thought for a person like me. I like to believe in self-determination and self-starting. More 'you' and less Government.
But in a collective sense, we are only as strong as the weakest link and in social experiment terms what we have seen in recent years in all sorts of areas is if you let the discipline and the leadership slip, all social hell breaks loose.
The presence of police works, as we heard the cop say this week. It's based on the British system, which is over 100 years old. Presence and visibility works and that's not hard to figure out.
The testing in schools they announced yesterday will have the same effect.
If you offer excuses, if you can't be bothered, if you let the guidelines slip there are those who revel in being ordinary, if not hopeless.
You could, and I do, argue that schools should have driven the absenteeism solution themselves. But they didn’t.
But when they were told to, it works. What a surprise.
What about cellphones in schools. Was it the calamitous mess they predicted? No. Why haven't you heard even a peep? Because it works and all it needed was a bit of discipline and a bit of leadership.
These are the small battles where the tangible outworkings provide hope.
A lot of people wondered, and wondered very loudly, whether the state of the country was so bad it might take years to fix, if it was even possible to fix it at all.
Well these examples this week I think are a good guide that we might actually be seeing some fruits of some labour.
Keep it simple, work hard and expect more. You'll be amazed.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
Like magic, a problem, if not solved, was starting to get addressed.
A Government is leadership and leadership in many, many areas is clearly needed
Which is a depressing thought for a person like me. I like to believe in self-determination and self-starting. More 'you' and less Government.
But in a collective sense, we are only as strong as the weakest link and in social experiment terms what we have seen in recent years in all sorts of areas is if you let the discipline and the leadership slip, all social hell breaks loose.
The presence of police works, as we heard the cop say this week. It's based on the British system, which is over 100 years old. Presence and visibility works and that's not hard to figure out.
The testing in schools they announced yesterday will have the same effect.
If you offer excuses, if you can't be bothered, if you let the guidelines slip there are those who revel in being ordinary, if not hopeless.
You could, and I do, argue that schools should have driven the absenteeism solution themselves. But they didn’t.
But when they were told to, it works. What a surprise.
What about cellphones in schools. Was it the calamitous mess they predicted? No. Why haven't you heard even a peep? Because it works and all it needed was a bit of discipline and a bit of leadership.
These are the small battles where the tangible outworkings provide hope.
A lot of people wondered, and wondered very loudly, whether the state of the country was so bad it might take years to fix, if it was even possible to fix it at all.
Well these examples this week I think are a good guide that we might actually be seeing some fruits of some labour.
Keep it simple, work hard and expect more. You'll be amazed.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
6 comments:
What about school now being in maori exclusively? Quality education? A special cooking class for maori? Hope the latter doesn't go over your head.
Could it be that persons are so concerned about their future employment and income prospects that holidays for all are simply taking a break?
Found it nauseating when those supporting the previous government made outrageous claims. Finding this is in the same category.
It is almost like the failing economy and a lack of free cash to flit off for a holiday, in or out of term, has zero bearing on it. None. It is all about how disciplined and leader like Luxon has been. Jeez, really?
People aren't taking overseas holidays. It's that simple. Come back to us when you have actual truancy numbers and talk about something that's actually relevant.
I recommend parents do homeschooling since the academic standards in our schools are so poor. The sexualization of children plus transgender agenda in schools is nauseating.
Strong leadership and discipline is good but not enough. Our schools are not wholesome places of learning but centers for indoctrination into socialism which has produced arrogant, ignorant intellectual retards imbued with adult sexual knowledge and ideas of racial victimization, traumatized about climate which drives them into the streets as social activists.
These are dangerous places for children.
maybe parents have figured that with a revamp of teaching methods underway the kids might actually learn something not available from general life if they go to school.
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