The bill would require school boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi by:
1) Achieving equitable outcomes for Māori students
2) Ensuring that school policies and teaching reflect local tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori
3) Taking all reasonable steps to make teaching available in tikanga Māori and te reo Māori
This is just more race-based lawmaking that creates special treatment instead of equal treatment. It forces schools to reshape everything through one cultural lens, regardless of whether it fits the needs or values of their communities.
Māori students deserve the best possible education, like every other child in this country. This bill doesn’t improve literacy, numeracy or classroom outcomes for all learners. It focuses on identity and ideology rather than real results. Since when did schools become vehicles for political and cultural indoctrination?
If Labour had introduced this exact wording, National would be calling it radical. Yet here we are, watching a National minister pushing it through Parliament. No wonder Hobson’s Pledge called Erica Stanford the wokest member of the National Party. They were right.
It’s especially troubling when you remember the coalition agreements National signed with ACT and New Zealand First. Both parties made it clear they wanted an end to race-based public services. That means dropping co-governance and stopping legislation that divides people along ethnic lines. So why is this bill being pushed through without any serious challenge?
The clause about achieving “equitable outcomes” for Māori students is particularly vague and problematic. Who decides what is equitable? And what happens when those outcomes aren't met? Will schools be punished or labelled as culturally unsafe? It puts political pressure on schools to prioritise race over performance.
What about the everyday Kiwi parents who just want their kids to learn to read, write, and do basic maths properly? Are they now going to see classroom time being diverted into meeting cultural targets instead of lifting academic standards?
Click the picture above to be taken to Hobson’s Pledge website and see what they have to say about it.
Erica Stanford is supposed to be the Minister of Education. Her job is to fix the broken parts of our education system, not make it more complex and more divided. She needs to listen to the public, not pander to the loudest ideological voices.
This bill is not what voters signed up for. It’s out of step with the country and out of touch with reality
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
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Hosking interviewed 3 National Ministers this am : Goldsmith, Potaka, and finally Stanford.
In short.....imo ...it was a train wreck morning for National.
It is as clear as the nose on your face, that despite claiming otherwise, National is doing all it can to keep on side with Maori, to the detriment of the rest of the populace . There is no intention to keep faith with the coalition agreement in a meaningful way😕.
Very disappointing but the lack of comment from Government MP's especially the PM has me thinking that the National Party pre election stance was and is a sham. There was a very clear voter mandate that saw the election result. That mandate is being ignored
Who decides? Increasingly the Educational establishment. They say learning outcomes/marks vary for every reason but 1) ability, 2) work studying. Find me one Education Phd thesis that argues that learning outcomes explained mainly by how hard people study, actually study and not socializing in groups sort-of studying while checking mobile phones every few minutes.
Erica is doing some very valuable work. She just thinks it’s ok to ignore this “sideshow”, as she calls it, for the time being. It’s Paul Goldsmith’s problem to solve, not hers. She also thinks it’s perfectly fine to publicly denigrate those who are upset about it. They are “yelling at the sky” and “frothing at the mouth with hatred”. Actually, Erica, we love our kids and our country and what we are all full of is deep concern. I can't say it any better than Matua has here.
IMO When Professor Elizabeth Rata has an opinion on educational achievement being set aside for cultural marxist ideological belief systems in a secular society then I will stand with her and not National. Rata knows where this is headed and the outcomes will be equity for all - as in all our children will be brainwashed dunces.
Okay. Let's just say it like it is:-
This is RACISM, DIVISION and APARTHEID !!!
I submitted saying the nonsense must be ripped from the Bill but just went and looked at the composition of the subject Select Committee. Four National, three Labour, one Green and one ACT. Any guesses as to how that will pan out?
We might need a Hikoi ... a parents' hikoi.
Where is the evidence that catering to peoples culture , improves their academic achievement? Of course there is none at all.Its like the self esteem movement of decades ago and now adopted in NZ , not only do we have the worst statistics academically but also by far the worst statistics in youth suicide .
Children gain self confidence and self esteem by being given real content knowledge from a teacher as an authority at the front of the class who teaches explicitly , systematically and accumulatively in a structured way and the students work hard and conscientiously at acquiring this knowledge.
English is a much more difficult subject to acquire reading than almost any other language. We in NZ , now have the worst reading scores in the English speaking world when mid -last century we had the best scores internationally . Introducing compulsory Te Reo as well will just confound the situation . Maori has very different vowels from written English which makes learning English more difficult because it , unfortunately, has an abundance of deviant vowels
Erica Stanford is not the only problem she is just an puppet of not just Maori activism but progressivism , the ideology with a stranglehold on our entire education system . The intention of this evil ideology, right from the beginning , was never actual education but rather using schooling as a vehicle for political ( socialism and Marxism) and social change .Until this underlying ideology is exposed for what it is, overthrown and replaced with traditional-like education with its values, content , methods and discipline our education can and will only deteriorate with the introduction of one destructive idea after another. That is the nature of the animal Progressivism in its pursuit of destroying Western Culture.
I feel like this is a case of the Emperor’s new clothes again - just like Ardern's Draconian & undemocratic Covid policies, a minority of us can see the issues with these racist policies, but we’re going up against a train that has already departed.
Just look at how the Maori language BS in EVERYTHING.
Not only does it make no sense - all non-English countries communicate in their native language first, followed by a full English translation second (sometimes vice versa), but it makes us look like pigeon-English-speaking retards.
Further, it is a language spoken by a minority of minority people in NZ….no matter how many 1/8 to 1/80 Maori try to deny their European ancestry.
This whole thing is such BS & just an excuse for rich, lazy Maori activists to get richer.
Absentee Maori kids are missing school because of food, clothes or period poverty &/or their useless egg & sperm donors (they're not parents), because they feel dumb & alienated, not because of a lack of Treaty acknowledgement in their curriculum.
You reverse this by ensuring they’re fed, clothed & by actually educating them - by teaching them to read, write & do basic maths, so that they feel like they can participate in everything our country has to offer.
Educated kids don’t put babies in driers, don't drop them, & don’t generally hit & stab each other, or steal cars & ram into shops.
Erica & National are part of the problem, not the solution.
This should never have got over the Coalition line.
Predict National really wants a government of national unity with Labour - so both share power. They clearly think alike.
I really don't understand Stanford's motive in taking NZ down this racist path, and her contribution to the death of democracy in NZ.
Is she really going to be pleased and proud that her Wikipedia page is going to say that she was an ethno Socialist ?
Having not voted for National I had qualms. But not any more. What world do Luxon and Standford live in? Just how read are they? A hard hitting campaign next election with maori returned to equals as per Hobson's pledge, with a concerted effort to gather in the Asian and other motivated communities, and the Coalition would romp in. But as currently headed it is at huge risk of losing out to Te Pati and Labour; which will be the worst disaster in NZ history to date. The vast maori expenditure dissipateded By National to cultivate favour is lost on artful primitives driven by rhetotric and will not gain votes.
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