As you see below at the high school level the results have been sliding too.
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In terms of the top school qualification – Education Counts just released:
In 2023, 37.8% of all school leavers attained UE Standard, a 0.7 percentage points decrease from 2022.
In 2023, UE Standard was attained by 17.6% of Māori school leavers overall (in 2020 it was 22%)
UE Standard was attained by 21.9% of Pacific school leavers overall.
UE Standard was attained by 60.2% of Asian school leavers overall.
UE Standard was attained by 41.2% of European/Pākehā school leavers overall.
We are now getting down 1 in 5.68 Maori students leaving school with UE. It is shameful.
Here is Level 1 NCEA for Leavers.
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In 2023, 12,048 Māori school leavers (71.7%) attained NCEA Level 1 or above. This was a decrease of 2.5 percentage points from 2022. That is; 28.3% of Maori young people are now leaving school for good without even attaining LEVEL 1 NCEA. Each has been funded for 13,200 hours and our schools have failed to get them over the lowest of hurdles.
To put it even more starkly: During 2023 – 3,410 Maori youth left school for good – with no qualifications.
Tinetti – with Jack Tame on Q&A – offered no answers – just a whole lot of couldn’t care less and don’t cross the unions.
Her only stated plan was to cancel Charter Schools if/when she gets back into power.
– it won’t matter if they are improving outcomes for students – especially Maori. (She simply talked down her nose about Maori organisations applying to run Charter Schools … she knows much better).
– it won’t matter if parents, students and the teachers working in them love them.
– it won’t matter if underserved communities and towns with no education choice love the new schools in their area.
Tinetti knows best – and only the unions matter to her – and the Charters will go!
NB: she espoused no plan to shut down the many State schools that, especially under her watch, were/are demonstrably not working.
I am working with a new Charitable Company and we have applied for four Charter Schools. Two in the central city of Auckland where there are no walk-up schools for 57,000 families. One in Epsom, on transport routes, for the range of students who need 1:15 classes and other features of our model. One in Warkworth – with a growing population and huge desire from families for choice. We are also VERY open to working with State schools who see the benefits of operating as Charters and will seek to change.
Tinetti takes no responsibility for the disgraceful state of our education system but claims to be highly knowledgeable. I will never attain the heights of being a Minister of this important sector – but from my lowly position I extend an open invite to debate the former (and aspiring) Minister on cause, effect and solutions to our education crisis.
Alwyn Poole, a well-known figure in the New Zealand education system, he founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. This article was sourced HERE
4 comments:
I'm afraid attempting to debate Tinetti and Hipkins would be akin to having a lucid conversation with Joe Biden and Karmala Harris
It is very simple .Tinetti is an ex teacher and the unions are her companions in arms. What they say must be obeyed. Students ' welfare is irrelevant and parents are pig ignorant nobodies.
Progressive-Marxist ideology reigns in the unions' minds and they
are never wrong and never to be challenged They always and for ever know best what schools and students should focus on, This same ideology dominates in the Min.of Ed. , and academia so the unions feel very secure they have the smartest brains and MSMedia on their side.
Wanting your child to be educated in the traditional sense , with emphasis on the 3Rs, taught in a structured disciplined way, rather than your child being indoctrinated into social engineering is the thinking of bigoted and misguided fools who need squashing.
Those responsible for the dramatic decline in New Zealand education over the last 10 years (including politicians, bureaucrats, consultants) are all still in the system and must be held accountable for the damage they have done. There's also the issue of accountability for the tens of millions of dollars wasted on building "modern learning classrooms" which are also part of the reason for our education demise.
We look to Erica Stanford and her advisers to make the necessary corrections. If I were the Minister, I would disestablish those Government agencies that operate in the domain of education and re-create them from scratch. What has been happening over the last half-dozen years or more has been truly shameful. David Lillis
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