The class guide was as follows:
Below are some links to helpful clips that may be useful for understanding ‘The Why’ when it comes to teaching and learning about all things culture and identity through a Te Ao Māori lens. Take some time to view one or two of these.
One of the links to study was the YouTube clip, “How colonisers went from learning te reo Māori to trying to exterminate it”.
Ironically, the clip for her English class is in Maori with subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemvzee6S1U
The five-minute clip is also a bit stronger than the title implies. University of Victoria sociolinguist Dr Vini Olsen-Reeder states:
Once the pakeha government was established here, from there the desire grew to exterminate the Maori people.
It wasn’t just the Maori language that the government wanted to exterminate but the Maori people themselves. Dr Olsen-Reeder claims that the New Zealand government was genocidal: that it wanted to kill-off all Maori. He offers not one shred of evidence in support of his extraordinary claim.
Remember, this is in English class.
It might be expected that students would have the opportunity to question such a claim.
But you would be wrong.
The purpose was to see the world through a Te Ao Māori lens. The genocidal claims must be accepted. To do otherwise would be to see the world through the coloniser’s lens. Beep. Wrong!
The task instead is to analyse the mood and tone of the video:
Mood and tone are crucial aspects of text and we must understand their role in creating meaning for readers.
What is mood in film and literature and who does it affect when examining a text?
What is ‘tone’ in literature and who creates it?
How does an author create mood and tone in a text?
The propaganda achievement is extraordinary. History is upended and inverted. Maori are holocaust victims. Pakeha are violent Nazi oppressors. And don’t dare question the narrative.
The narrative can’t be questioned because not to question is the very point of the exercise. Students are to see the world through the Te Ao Maori lens.
Brilliant. And all the more so that this is achieved in English. The purpose is not to teach but to indoctrinate.
No more the learning of grammar, punctuation, syntax or great literature.
Our children don’t know Wuthering Heights or Shakespeare but they know Western Bad, Indigenous Good.
They are helped along in the video with MP Rawiri Waititi weighing in:
”We were taught everything we were doing was bad and everything they were doing was good. That white was right.”
Any great piece of literature or great movie clip could be used to study mood and tone. But the Critical Theorists at the Ministry of Education take every opportunity to indoctrinate our children.
No subject is safe.
The teacher involved is excellent. But this is what she must do.
The fault lies with the Ministry of Education prescribing such rubbish and with Hon Erica Stanford and Prime Minister Chris Luxon for overseeing it.
We have a supposedly conservative-led government that sees nothing wrong with Critical Theorists tearing down our Judeo-Christian heritage from within the education system. Indeed, the Minister is steeped in Critical Theory. She can’t argue it or defend it. But she doesn’t need to. She has power. That is all that counts. And so death to the oppressors. And up with the oppressed.
Ms Stanford has a BA with honours from Auckland University. She majored in Political Science. And minored in Maori Studies.
Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011. This article was first published HERE
35 comments:
What a nonsense! It is almost unbelievable to realise this sort of tripe is taught in our schools. Luxon and co need to show some fortitude and insist on actualities. Butter wouldn’t melt in Waititi’s mouth! There would be many Pākehā who experienced reverse racism, but don’t play the victim.
So it seems indoctrination continues - another broken election promise for Luxon and Stanford.
Agree Rodney. This government may well be known for what it failed to do over what it did do. This may well be our last chance to re-set the system in favour of truth over ideology, reason over deception, and unity over constant hate and division. Sadly our policial elites, both sides, have no appetite it seems to dig this problem up by its roots as is now happening in America. Our media, institutions and politcal elites are simply waiting until the next election (or the one after that) to pick up where they left off and finish the job. And then we will watch with horror as we sink into the abyss of lies and deception and tyranny. Seem extreme ? .. only to those ignorant of history and human nature.
Disgusting.
I read that maori only schools were initially set up, however the maori parents of the time mainly preferred to send their kids to the ordinary state schiools, so that they would not be left behind They could have kept Te reo by teaching it to their own children. I know people who are fluent in 5 languages. Our brain is capable of that.
And genocide? Really? Why are therei still maori alive today if this happened? Or is the truth simply, that many maori married the christian settlers and largely lived a harnonious happy life.
Rodney should take this further. The kids are being taught outright lies. This is eerily similar to the state indoctrination that happened to German children in the 1930s
Great example of how the country is being destroyed from within.
That is not education! Surely this article by Rodney Hide is unbalanced? If not, the Ministry of Education is not doing its job, and all those responsible should be replaced by people who know what education actually is. If that is the case, it is time for the Government to step in if they want our children to develop a balanced approach to culture and identity.
Outrageous and very blatant.
This is Marxist policy in action right here in our once united nation.
Welcome to New Zimbabwe !
That is so depressing Rodney. Why doesn't somebody do something about this? Especially someone who is sending their kids to learn this every day. Revolution anyone?
Are the parents up in arms over all this or are they also complicit/complacent? - I am glad I never had kids if this is what is being inflicted upon the young of today, with the approval of our fine National party!
Get your children the best education you can, then get out of this country
-with your family
-with your wealth
for your future.
The tribal 'mugabes' are not being stopped with any of the political parties.
If the government wanted genocide they should have sold more muskets. What about the gang killings every week? Unfortunately they may be targeting the wrong kind of Maori.
MC
From what I have seen of various course books modern school English is obsessed with analysis of films and videos. My interest in films and familiarity about equals that of a typical modern student in Shakespeare. Whilst my English ability seems to have served me reasonably well over the decades (successfully disguising many other shortfalls), I would fail a current paper.
Hyde obviously has a very short fuse and needs to take ten deep breaths before shooting from the hip. Seems to me an English class is exactly the right forum for teaching kids the power of words. The task was to examine the "mood and tone" of the piece under review. Kids need to learn to recognise manipulative language when they see it to let them develop filters. And that can only be done by case studies that examine provocative subjects from all sides. And if the teacher is doing their job properly that involves a discussion about how language can manipulate and shape opinion. But like any good demagogue, Hyde knows all about that. Perhaps he ought to understand the teaching objectives before bursting into print.
Wrong again Jones Boy. Education does not need this falsified crap which is at the very least racist as a base document for education.
Just how many kids are going to believe, or at least be influenced by these absurd lies ?
What are the adults doing about this , and I don't mean those members of Te Parti National, who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge what's going on before their eyes.
Luxon, who are you going to blame when a January 6th breaks out ?
Get off your so called Christian arse and do something !!!
Schooling/life/society/whatever through a Stone Age lens. Yeah, that should be a real eye-opener.
I found this very interesting, and I doubt Rodney even sees what I see:
"The propaganda achievement is extraordinary. History is upended and inverted. Maori are holocaust victims. Pakeha are violent Nazi oppressors. And don’t dare question the narrative."
Don't dare question the narrative, Rodney? Do you mean exactly how we are not allowed to question the paradigmatic holocaust/Nazi narrative invoked above?
The Jones Boy ignored the title of the school class, the guide to it and Hide's comments about the requirement to consider the class material through a 'te ao Maori' lens. That meant critical thinking about the content of the material, and analysis of how language was used to manipulate and to deceive, would have been no-go zones. Was there a disclaimer at the outset of class that the material was fictional and simply used because of unusual mood and tone in its language? Probably not. The presentation of this political material was thereby a high level of manipulative indoctrination, expecting students to accept the content of the false history whilst focusing only on the mood and tone of the wording.
One may as well subject law students to enactments of trials that allowed the lawyers to tell blatant lies and that ignored the law, then expecting the students to consider only the mood and tone provided by the Court furniture.
Indeed, Barend, and Basil. Those from the stone age have much to teach us - what a crock! This is an affront to all New Zealanders and it has no place in a school curriculum. If they want to study genocide, they can look at what happened in the Chatham Islands, but this patent fiction and propaganda should be banned. Stanford is as useless as her boss, if she allows this to continue.
Unusually for me I watched a bit of TV One news the other night. It had a delightful story of Christchurch Boys High oldest old boy, a lovely gentleman 103 years old.
One of the shots showed a then youthful current All Black and I was surprised to be told recent Maori All Black playing rugby for the school , that very bastion of White Anglo-Saxon Christian Democracy. Would you believe it, a Maori at such a school ?
Looking at him I would have believed his mother and father were more likely to hail from the Remuera/ Khandallah/ Fendalton croquet club than from Maoridom. But then so it is with many Maori these days.
And after he has retired from competitive rugby and had a few seasons picking up better money playing in Japan or Europe he might start to think about his children's education. Well he will rest assured that he can play the Maori card again and see them gain entry into Med School/Law School or other restricted entry courses with a row of straight C minus grades ahead of many candidates with straight A grades. And the taxpayer will pay for them.
A friend of mine told her three sons had all played the Maori card at University for personal benefit. I told this to my daughter who told me she thought the 3 boys all tall, lean, blue eyed and fair haired were more likely to be Vikings than Maori. And none of us had ever heard of any Maori ancestry in their family.
That we tolerate all this is a madness sweeping through New Zealand akin to the Salem witch trials.
Madame, expect to be well and truly castigated for using the "Nazi" word, twice !
The left academics will have a go at you.
And you mentioned the holocaust ! How dare you ! The woke will really get their knickers twisted.
The problem is that you didn't preface with a mention of the genocide in the Chathams of Moriori by Maori, when they were in effect terminated.
However, that's been resolved by our Government given them an apology, $18M, and Willie saying "I can't be held responsible for my ancestors (but you pakeha can)."
Education Minister Stanford was on Q+A raving about the new Maths curriculum. No mention of the Te Ao vision - or content.
As Tom Logan says, this is advancing very fast - all ready for 2026 or 2029. Way before 2040.
Similar to Hitler Youth indoctrination.
How can Luxon let this be perpetrated under his watch ?
If I were a teacher grading the replies here I woud give top marks to Jones Boy. I suspect all the school reponses will sycophantically back the extreme modern maori insurgent view and interpret the mood and tone as relatively benign, rational and and justified. As the teacher is sure to be pro maori indoctrinated, any student who ripped into the video and found the tone and mood irrational, logically unfounded, embittered, brain washed, self serving, seditious etc etc would face cancellation and teacher animosity. I wonder if the students are ever given a dollop of Brash and asked the same question.
I watched the YouTube video - not that it communicated much to me in a language foreign to my ears, although I did listen carefully to the few words in English and read the sub-titles.
At the end I spotted the Te Mangai Paho logo.
Does that mean these spiteful, history-denying lies and propaganda were produced with the assistance of taxpayer funds?
Urgent enquiry now, Minister Stanford.
PS:
Anon at 9.29am: Good advice. We have already taken it.
Anon at 10.49am: “Te Parti National” - love it! Duly noted and borrowed for re-use.
“Dr Olsen-Reeder claims that the New Zealand government was genocidal: that it wanted to kill-off all Maori. He offers not one shred of evidence in support of his extraordinary claim”.
Government genocidal with no historical facts, really Olsen-Reeder. How about these Tangata Maori genocidal facts.
1820-1830 – Ngapuhi slaughters 60,000 of their fellow countrymen.
Hongi Hika and his followers, after acquiring muskets, went on a cowardly rampage south slaughtering thousands of his unarmed country men, women and children just for the fun of it and the cannibal feasts that followed.
At the same time, Te Rauparaha and his followers were doing the same cowardly act in the South Island after acquiring muskets.
1831 – Waikato Maori annihilate Taranaki Maori, one-third slaughtered, one-third fled south and the rest taken as slaves. The 900 Taranaki Maori that fled to Wellington made their way to the Chatham Island where they slaughtered and farmed the peace loving Moriori into virtual extinction over the next seven years.
By the way, it wasn’t the government that wanted to “exterminate” the Maori language, it was the Maori themselves who wanted their children to integrate fully into the English speaking society.
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I don’t understand the drive by all these white politicians to destroy their historic credibility and that of every other settler who came after the Māori immigration. People always say it’s for votes but that doesn’t actually make any sense. They stand to gain 17% and lose 80%. Hard to see how that is something to strive for. Is it just conflict avoidance? When the majority is pissed they point
It out in relatively civil ways. The minority choose to show their displeasure with loud shows of aggression and aggrandisement. Are our politicians really so soft they are scared shitless of them cos they might yell at them and poke out their tongue?
Politicians as near all others fear the immense power of cancellation if any counter maori sentiment is expresed. And with so many deranged irrational brain washed violent haka instilled maori nutters at lerge as demonstrated every year at Waitangi, politicians in particular fear for their physical safety if any counter maori view expressed. The risk extends far beyond poked tongues.
This sort of Rubbish is even given to teachers as Professional Development. It is indoctrination at the highest level. Ministry of Education needs to change direction NOW! Too many teachers are leaving the job because of this indoctrination. Our students need a world class education if they want to succeed in life, they don't need educators that are brainwashed.
Thirteen year olds have not usually developed critical thinking skills that would enable them to discern propaganda from truth . They are still children. What happens when a child goes home and discuss es this material with parents like Rodney? Either the authority of the parent or the teacher is trashed. The child is put in an intolerable situation whereby they are probably best advised to say nothing for risk of being victimized by the teacher who will gossip about their cheeky, upstart behaviour in class. I have had this happen with my own children in NZ schools even last century over other ideological conflicts. In exams what can the child do but churn out these lies or risk being demoted into a class for the underachiever ? I have seen this as a tutor with my own students. Yes, this actually happens with one student, a high achiever. being put in a remedial reading class because he read phonically instead of by whole language methods forced on children at that time.
I can guarantee you or your child will be considered stupid or obstructed if you start complaining about all this stuff.
Having had the definitive court case 45 years ago to introduce homeschooling which involved an ideological clash over Progressivee Education , ( all this CRT is the progeny of Progressivism) I grieve that progressivism in our schools has become even more terrible and entrenched.
Dismantle the MoE or meanwhile homeschool.
if i had the school's definiton of Mood and of Tone and half a day to waste I would attempt a model answer. i cannot be expelled.
As was suspected, the rot went a lot deeper than just the former CEO, Iona Holsted. This proves, yet again, it's time the MoE swamp was drained.
Important for all parents to disclose specific information about how History (or any subject) is taught to their children in schools and universities.
Surely, with algebra, geometry, physics, chemistry and English grammar, they haven't found a way to introduce anything but facts? If they have, it really is time to sort it out.
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