For the avoidance of doubt, let us be absolutely clear: the explosion of Maori "education" is not about academic excellence. It is not about opportunity. It is not even about preparing children for a productive future. It is about separatism, racial division, and the slow but steady dismantling of a cohesive New Zealand in favour of a taxpayer-funded Maori aristocracy that feeds off endless handouts while contributing nothing of real value.
The sheer scale of this racket is staggering. In just a decade, the roll at these Maori schools has more than doubled, propped up by a political class too spineless to say what everyone knows: this is not education, it is indoctrination. Children are not being taught to compete in the global economy. They are not being given the tools to innovate, create, or lead in any meaningful way. No, they are being taught a dead-end ideology that reduces their entire existence to a racial identity and sets them up for failure in a world that does not give a damn about "Maoridom."
The fact that this nonsense is allowed to continue, let alone celebrated, is proof of how utterly captured the political establishment has become by the Maori lobby. The article boasts of Maori schools hitting "capacity" - as if this were some sign of achievement rather than a glaring red flag. State-integrated faith-based schools, which have produced generations of productive citizens, are struggling or closing altogether.
Meanwhile, Maori schools - despite offering nothing of tangible value - continue to expand, with the government throwing money at them like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
The figures are damning. Over 27,000 students are now trapped in this system, severed from the real world, taught in a language that offers them no genuine economic or professional advantage. The supposed "success" of these schools is measured not by academic rigour, but by "90% achievement rates" in NCEA - an utterly meaningless statistic in a system where one can pass without ever learning anything of substance.
The real test of success is employment, economic productivity, and contribution to society. But that, of course, is never mentioned.
And what is the grand ambition of this movement? To produce "leaders of Maoridom," whatever that means. Where, exactly, is "Maoridom"? Is it a nation? A functioning economy? A global player in science, technology, or business? No. It is a political construct, a grievance industry designed to milk the taxpayer for all he is worth while shielding an entire class of people from the consequences of their own choices.
The Maori lobby will, of course, wail and moan at any attempt to impose basic standards or limit their state-funded separatism. The very notion of an enrolment scheme to manage these ballooning rolls is met with outrage, as if Maori are entitled to infinite state resources while the rest of the country is expected to make do with what it has.
The Ministry of Education timidly suggests restrictions, only to be met with the predictable howls of victimhood from those who have mastered the art of extracting ever-greater sums of money from a spineless government.
But the real crime here is not just the waste of money. It is the deliberate sabotage of Maori children, condemned to a future where they are taught to see themselves as a separate, entitled class rather than as individuals capable of success through their own efforts. It is a betrayal of the very principles that once made this country great - hard work, integration, and a commitment to excellence over racial sentimentality.
It is high time we called this absurdity what it is: a state-funded exercise in racial narcissism. If Maori parents wish to indulge in this fantasy, they are welcome to do so - on their own dime. The rest of New Zealand should not be paying for it. If we are serious about building a successful, united nation, then this separatist nonsense must end.
English, mathematics, science, and personal responsibility - these are the only foundations of success. Everything else is a taxpayer-funded diversion.
The sheer scale of this racket is staggering. In just a decade, the roll at these Maori schools has more than doubled, propped up by a political class too spineless to say what everyone knows: this is not education, it is indoctrination. Children are not being taught to compete in the global economy. They are not being given the tools to innovate, create, or lead in any meaningful way. No, they are being taught a dead-end ideology that reduces their entire existence to a racial identity and sets them up for failure in a world that does not give a damn about "Maoridom."
The fact that this nonsense is allowed to continue, let alone celebrated, is proof of how utterly captured the political establishment has become by the Maori lobby. The article boasts of Maori schools hitting "capacity" - as if this were some sign of achievement rather than a glaring red flag. State-integrated faith-based schools, which have produced generations of productive citizens, are struggling or closing altogether.
Meanwhile, Maori schools - despite offering nothing of tangible value - continue to expand, with the government throwing money at them like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
The figures are damning. Over 27,000 students are now trapped in this system, severed from the real world, taught in a language that offers them no genuine economic or professional advantage. The supposed "success" of these schools is measured not by academic rigour, but by "90% achievement rates" in NCEA - an utterly meaningless statistic in a system where one can pass without ever learning anything of substance.
The real test of success is employment, economic productivity, and contribution to society. But that, of course, is never mentioned.
And what is the grand ambition of this movement? To produce "leaders of Maoridom," whatever that means. Where, exactly, is "Maoridom"? Is it a nation? A functioning economy? A global player in science, technology, or business? No. It is a political construct, a grievance industry designed to milk the taxpayer for all he is worth while shielding an entire class of people from the consequences of their own choices.
The Maori lobby will, of course, wail and moan at any attempt to impose basic standards or limit their state-funded separatism. The very notion of an enrolment scheme to manage these ballooning rolls is met with outrage, as if Maori are entitled to infinite state resources while the rest of the country is expected to make do with what it has.
The Ministry of Education timidly suggests restrictions, only to be met with the predictable howls of victimhood from those who have mastered the art of extracting ever-greater sums of money from a spineless government.
But the real crime here is not just the waste of money. It is the deliberate sabotage of Maori children, condemned to a future where they are taught to see themselves as a separate, entitled class rather than as individuals capable of success through their own efforts. It is a betrayal of the very principles that once made this country great - hard work, integration, and a commitment to excellence over racial sentimentality.
It is high time we called this absurdity what it is: a state-funded exercise in racial narcissism. If Maori parents wish to indulge in this fantasy, they are welcome to do so - on their own dime. The rest of New Zealand should not be paying for it. If we are serious about building a successful, united nation, then this separatist nonsense must end.
English, mathematics, science, and personal responsibility - these are the only foundations of success. Everything else is a taxpayer-funded diversion.
Tui Vaeau is a digital marketer with a background in real estate and security. Unmoved by the fashionable absurdities of modern politics, he stands for national cohesion and the principle that all New Zealanders should be treated as equals. His views are forthright, unswayed by ideological theatrics, and firmly grounded in reality.
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As the author states, this is not Education - it is irreversible Indoctrination. Maori elite are focused on power and achieving the He Puapua agenda which guarantees final Maori authority.
To this end, they are ready to sacrifice a generation to Ideology so as to swell the numbers of indoctrinated young people coming into the voting system.
This process has been very expertly planned. The feeble political class is failing NZers, including denying them a referendum to save democracy.
Disaster - and Maori control - are now certain.
Great to read an article unafraid to call it as it is. I've long seen these schools as state-funded training grounds for the next generation of activists. Indoctrination ahead of education and the kids too young to choose anything different.
And the sad thing is, love it or hate it, they are winning aren't they?
Thank you Tui for this forthright article that everyone including Maori parents need to read .
It is a mistake however to say we have had in NZ a so called Education system dedicated to real education. We haven't . Ever since the1950's we have been cursed by Progressivism , an ideology
sold on the desire to use state schools as a vehicle for promoting socialism then Marxism ( now CRT and racism) which over the decades has eroded away every traditional value , method and discipline we had . John Dewey , the architect of the horror education we now have ( NOT to be confused with the Dewey library system ) was an aggressive atheist, a failed teacher, humanist and socialist But academia were totally enamored with him and still are , despite the fact he had no concern for real schooling as we know it and described by Tui.
Progressivism was the ideology Peter Fraser introduced during his term as PM. He should not be idolized for this as is done by Erica Stanford. Building state housing and providing social welfare for the genuine needy was good but a strong welfare system depends on an effective education system which we now don't have . Instead we have a great underclass of semi-literates and in numerates , our schooling has produced, who include Maori of low socio-ecomoic status and solo parent homes .
Do Maori parents ever think about their offspring wishing to live or travel overseas where Mataurangi is of no value at all ? Well educated Maori are thriving in Australia.
Like most bad ideas Maori immersion schools are also actually totally impractical and insane. Learning Maori is a a hobby .
After the Board shakeup hopefully such rational, logical, straightforward, plain English observations will appear in the Herald. If the msm presented the factual counter to endless current maorification propaganda NZ might progress. A very senior primary teacher acquaintance spends hours of her uncommonly able time teaching to indoctrinated brain washed (immersed) "students" maori English in the same manner as for immigrants where it is their 2nd language. An absurd and completely avoidable waste of time and ability, both that of the teacher and the immersion casualties/victims.
Unfortunately the rot set in a long time ago and has infiltrated all younger people. They have been subjected to the Maori wonderfulness (spit) all through their school years and university. My 30 somethings with not a drop of Maori in them are totally on board with Maori taking back their country. They believe the revised history and that the problems of lazy people are related to colonization. They have not even read He Pua Pua or the TPM website and say they dont need to. I feel sick and alienated. The Marxists have already won. Politicians of the last 50 years are, each and every one, traitors to all pioneers and people who died in wars for our country and responsible for what is taking place in New Zimbabwe.
Our options now are disband the Waitangi Tribunal and fight back politically, wait for uprisings in the streets or roll over into the submissive position and become like South Africa. MC
If one of the main functions of schooling is to prepare young people for adult life in a globalised world, the 'immersion model' schools are denying their pupils. Those kids are destined to be adults on the fringe of society blaming society for their fringe status.
Maori schooling does equip people for employment because soon knowledge of the Maori language and commitment to the Treaty will be a mandatory requirement for all public servants. It's getting that way with doctors as well, going by the Southern Health add mentioned a few days ago.
I don’t imagine Christopher Luxon and co will read and take heed of Tui’s comments-more’s the pity. It is an accurate reflection of today’s NZ.
A completely ludicrous situation when normal children are compelled to converse with each other in words that were fabricated yesterday.
Why can't the Coalition stamp this blatant indoctrination out today ?
Luxon, deal with this, or step down.
This comment is so correct in its analysis and assertions - exactly in keeping with our thinking. The systematic brainwashing of the young is part of the classic Marxist methodology, straight out of the Marxist Playbook in fact! Our politicians have been complicit in allowing the young to be turned into little more than lemmings or lambs to the slaughter. National under Luxon are simply continuing on this path and we are frankly stuffed.
Maybe the young "true believers" will think differently when they find they will pay for Maori privilege and dependency - not the wealthy Maori elite. This will cost them dearly.
Well said Tui, Gaynor et al and, Barend, you are correct. If we ever return to common sense and true normality, surely another case for a Royal Commission on State funded and sanctioned abuse will be warranted? One could well imagine the likes of Sir Apirana Ngata would be spinning in his grave.
Im hoping next election Act and NZ first dont go against each other again like last time. It was very off-putting. I think if they banded together they could both do very well and we could see the end of all the parties making everything worse.
That way is the road to perdition for NZ - bloated bureaucracy, no productivity, massive taxation, exodus of the competent, bankruptcy, collapse.........the USSR model where the money ran out.
I think we should first know more about the 90% achievement rates in NCEA, which Alwyn Poole would regard as very good if it continued to year 3, and dependent on subjects. It is all we have for everyone at the moment and I would not write if off, if Maori kids are getting 30% pass rates in English and 90% in Maori. Let's find out more. The Welsh almost all learn in that language but get jobs easily in English if they wish. Some facts please on NCEA passes, and then we could consider allegations of indoctrination.
As a former, successful principal of both a decile 1 (predominantly Māori) area school and a decile 10, integrated, boys’ secondary schooI, I applaud Tui Vaeau’s insight, honesty and courage in stating the truth.
Well said indeed, and at last.
May it be shared widely and read carefully.
As observed previously, future historians will note with wonder how a trace maori minority engineered the (so far) relatively bloodless takeover of NZ, largely by exploitation of an obsolete stone age language, and by subversive infiltration of political parties, unions, government departments, universities, legal profession, council staff, latterly elected councils etc. The artfulness of Walker, Jackson and others less obvious has been astonishing. All backed by immense power of cancellation and demonstrations of potential savagery and force (haka and hikoi). It is a move comparable in incredibility with the destruction of the Soviet Union by in that case artful external infiltration of a concept of democracy touted by America for such purpose. By backing the te reo movement, and subsidising Insurrection Coordination Centres (marae) successive governments have encouraged the overthrow of the established system despite it having elevated maori to probably the best off late stone age "indigenous" race in the world.
A couple years ago the Ministry of Education published “Aotearoa New Zealand Principal Eligibility Criteria.”
The Eligibility Criteria leaves absolutely no doubt as to what type of people the Ministry want appointed to lead our schools. Astonishingly, the Criteria makes no mention of an appointed principal being required to improve or maintain education standards and attendance rates.
Unbelievable!
The document states school boards must make sure anyone they appoint as principal meets the criteria.
The Eligibility Criteria has four pou. There is no translation. Thus, immediately discriminating against the 95% of us who don’t speak maori! FYI - A pou is a pillar.
The four pou are Pou Tangata, Pou Ako, Pou Tikanga Maori and Pou Mahi.
Translated they are - Leader of People, Leader of Vision for Learning and Leader of Operations. Pou Tikanga Maori has no English translation except to say that a principal will bring “Te Tiriti o Waitangi to life as the founding document of a bicultural Aotearoa New Zealand.”
This pillar says a principal must “prioritise biculturalism through resourcing and funding” and “show commitment to understanding the impact of colonization on education in Aotearoa.”
Does that mean the arrival of Europeans in the 1800’s and the introduction of the concept of education to this country, thereby allowing everybody, maori included, to learn to read, write and count?
Somehow I don’t think so.
This is ridiculousness in the extreme! Planning to fail!
Clive, passing lies off as truth (read all you can stand of the anti-colonialism nonsense being promulgated in the media by fractional maoris) is indoctrination. In other words, forcing impressionable minds to believe a twisted view of history is indoctrination. From what I understand NCEA passes are indicative of nothing but teachers often too lazy to inculcate a high standard of leaning into pupils and ensuring that their schools look good on the 'league tables'.
When Helen Clark said she saw NZ as a "bi-cultural nation in the Oceania area of the Pacific", she was mapping her specific vision - not just for her own tilt at the UN top job - but the future of her country - without asking the people.
Wake up NZers - and demand a referendum on equality of citizenship.
Reading what John Porter said above, one has to ask what is Erica Stanford doing to redress/correct all the rubbish stuff that her Ministry of Indoctrination (sorry is that Education?) are foisting on our young via schools and universities? I'm seeing nothing of note apart from the odd green shoot from Elizabeth Rata.
You will see nothing - Stanford is one of the most "woke" Ministers.
Luxon is enthralled by Maori wonderfulness and has done absolutely nothing to honour his commitment to put an end to all of the Maori nonsense particularly in the public service. He is a liar (he has failed to progress his election promises) and a traitor to his country and should resign immediately along with Stanford, Willis and a few others of like ilk.
PS This message must be re-enforced daily.
Goldsmith ( does the dirty work re. Maori issues) while Potaka ( distributes the generous funds ). Meanwhile ex-Treaty Minister Finlayson (never elected by anyone ) continues to earn mega-bucks as Ngai Tahu' s lawyer for their latest outrageous claims ( despite sale of their land 3 times) .
This factual story would be hard to invent.
National is treating their voters as dummies. Why?
Very intelligently written, thankyou! A great read.
Good on you Tui for standing up and speaking out against the prevailing narrative.
So, we have our very own “Aotearoa Iwi Public Affairs Committee” (AIPAC) lobby group operating in New Zealand, and like in the US, it appears to be the tail wagging the dog.
People need to be forward thinking. Academics blather on and on about the importance of identity and the past and where one's from, blah blah blah. Who cares? Maori need to be electricians and engineers and surgeons, not all bureaucrats and cultural experts. If I need a heart-lung transplant, I want the surgeon to know what they're doing.... Regarding the comment about the Welsh, is Welsh mythology, fairies sprites etc embedded into school curricula?
As well as the obvious biased in not teaching the sort of life skills that any student in 202 will need to be equipped for the future in this country I am convinced from what I see and hear that pupils in Maori immersions schools are being fed a diet of grossly distorted history and pure hatred of all aspects of what are in fact European democratic traditions. We already see a young woman as a member of the Maori party in parliament whose historical concepts are based in total ignorance and I suspect we shall see much, much more in the future. The saddest thing is that this was all self inflicted and could have been avoided. Policies that I could see coming in the education of the 1980's have arrived in all their horror.
I endorse every comment made here. I am a retired teacher [82] and remember a time when visiting teachers from overseas were in classrooms to see for themselves the grounding in basic schooling. It has ALL fallen apart progressively in the last 40 years or so. Down the drain at the behest of Maori activists..... and weak teachers. It is no longer "education" even at university - its just mindless indoctrination...
There's an awful lot of other faith-based schools out there pushing ideology that has no relevance to our "unforgiving world" as Vaeau puts it. But I don't hear him criticising state-funded Christian, or Jewish, or Muslim schools. Perhaps that's because the kids all seem to come out the other end capable of surviving the real world, because that's what the state imposed curriculum is designed to do. So does Vaeau have any hard evidence state funded Maori schools are letting down their kids by not teaching the curriculum? If so, I'm sure the Education Review Office would be delighted to hear about it. But if he can't, he's just another bloke tilting at windmills for no better reason than they don't fit his own personal world view. Just like so many other contributors to this platform whose baseless opinions pass for expert analysis.
Wow. The Jones Boy has spoken. Pay attention people, the rest of us don't know anything.
So the Jones Boy thinks that Maori crap will be useful beyond a marae.
Absolutely no use in the real world doing anything productive, anywhere.
I really don't care if Maori insist on letting their children down, but I have a real angry reaction to Maori who demand that pakeha children are dragged down to their level.
Let's identify these people, especially the government employees who are deliberately destroying the future of our kids.
Re: Anons March 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM & 2:27 PM You are of course absolutely right, National and Luxon (with maybe a couple of exceptions) are playing us all for fools while they give away our Country to those who have nothing but their own twisted, vested interests at heart. The question as to why this is so deserves an answer.
Tonight's Country Calendar was a classic example of the lack of ability of Maori youth to function in the most basic manner.
And they want all the rest of our kids to attain no real skills through an education of te reo mumble, karakia, and kapahaka, flax weaving and the like ??
Spot on.. = the modern tribal society in action and a trace Maori group. *Recall the last comment: "they all want to come here to live like this."
Their tragedy.
Lol - irony!
As on previous occasions the Jones Boy has attempted to reduce the discussion to an adolescent level as plagues many other political sites. The normal near absence of which makes BV special.. The te reo nonsense was sold initially on the premise that maori did not connect with normal schooling so did poorly. The notion was that te reo and wallowing in life the maori way at school would develop a general interest that would extend to conventional purposeful topics and improve achievement there. Many very able persons bought the masterful con, including apparently Elisabeth Rata initially. The premise has proven a dud; low success in conventional non maori tests, subsequent employment (except in maori topics), have remained poor or worsened. Extensive English as a 2nd language tuition has been required for some to fit them for the real post stone age world. In effect a state funded political movement has been established and is lavishly supported. Many religious based schools are extensively privately funded. Unlike the case with the majority of maori schools, alongside the specialised instruction they achieve well in standard tests. Maori have artfully commandeered public funds, not just for the indoctrination schools but for other political insurrection fostering centres ie marae. With the National Party heavily infiltrated by maori with mixed or feigned allegiance, no one is willing to call an end to the failed experiment and educate maori primarily for the 21st century, for racial integration, and for equal treatment.
Re Robert 7:58 Therefor get education unstuck from Western Progressive / Marxist ideology and back to traditional teaching methods that has everyone achieve . academically as we did in the past .
In the '50s and '60s it didn't matter whether a youngster 'succeeded academically' or not. Those who got nothing out of school left the day they turned 15 and got a job. Many/most stayed on to complete School Cert and then got a job or an apprenticeship. A small but growing number stayed another year for UE and got a really good job. A few completed Bursaries and went on to uni.
Note the repeating phrase "got a job". As long as school leavers were employable, it didn't matter how they had done at school.
Then with the modernisation of the economy the ones at the bottom of the achievement spectrum were no longer employable. Hey, there must be something wrong with the curriculum, many said. But the problem wasn't of the curriculum's making.
Schooling needs to feed into the labour market of a modern economy. That means devising career pathways for ALL youngsters whether academic, technical or vocational (in Europe we distinguish between these tracks as most 'second wave' industrialising economies do).
But openings in the labour market need to be real. There are some employment opportunities for youngsters skilled in kapa haka and te ao but not many. Most of those kids should probably be in vocational tracks. There is nothing second-rate about that. A self-employed plumber or house electrician earns oodles more than a lower-order clerical worker or labourer.
I am of course referring to achievement in the basics overall not just school leavers. The students , I know of who failed to achieve in the basics have little choice but low skilled , low paid work or on the dole. If they had been taught the basics with effective methods their choice would have been much wider including school courses taken academically, technically or vocationally.
In 1970 we achieved in NZ , the highest score in reading comprehension internationally for 15 year olds. Now we have the worst literacy scores in the English speaking world. In earlier times we also did not have on of the longest tails of underachievement in the developed world.
Students in the 1950s and 60s , may have left , school without acquiring higher qualifications but they clearly had a higher level of basic literacy and numeracy than now,. It was an associate professor r of Sociology Mike Grimshaw who claimed in 'The Post ' last November that students at university displayed mass illiteracy in being unable to read texts or do written work. Grimshaw also pointed out lack of fundamental skills had become a headache for employers , who were also seeing growing numbers of applicants 'the didn't have 'the expected reading literacy skills' .
An article in RNZ reports the new NCEA CAA tests have in low income schools half failing the reading and writing tests and three quarters the numeracy tests .
Principal Craggs of Papakura High School stated literacy and numeracy standards need to improve and another principal Fuller said the problem of literacy and numeracy was the number one issue for high equity (low decile ) schools.
It was also mentioned current teenagers, had not had the benefit of the latest changes in literacy in primary schools.
These latest changes at primary school are reading being taught systematically . explicitly and ac-cumulatively with phonics as was the teaching method to produce our high scores in the past. These are traditional methods that work.
INDEED, INDEED... INDEED. And I gather the primary teachers are appalled at being required to teach systematically... with phonics. Witness the "concern" on AEC collective pages... [Ak Education collective !] Young folk now in their 20s in business as mechanics, are so illiterate they cannot even write/print their own name... [on Wills etc]
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