Had the journalist, and RNZ, been interested in balance the story would have pointed out there are more than 500 secondary schools in the country so the 89 are a minority.
Had they been interested in balance they would have asked for comment from supporters of the plan to replace NCEA.
At least one of the principals with whom Education Minister Erica Stanford worked to develop the alternative would ahve been a good place to start.
Had they been interested in balance they might have included comments from the Minister too.
One News also covered the story. I can’t find a link to it but it had a similar lack of balance interviewing only signatories to the letter, not any principals who support the changes and not the minister.
Lack of balance like this from any media outlet would be bad. That they are both public broadcasters makes it much worse.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
At least one of the principals with whom Education Minister Erica Stanford worked to develop the alternative would ahve been a good place to start.
Had they been interested in balance they might have included comments from the Minister too.
One News also covered the story. I can’t find a link to it but it had a similar lack of balance interviewing only signatories to the letter, not any principals who support the changes and not the minister.
Lack of balance like this from any media outlet would be bad. That they are both public broadcasters makes it much worse.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
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How much balance did Joseph Goebbels demonstrate? Oh that’s right, he specialised in propaganda.
No surprises. Our msm has been Left leaning for a long time.
Any news that might embarrass the current administration will be twisted and reported with glee.
Just another example of the extreme and obvious bias by the staff at RNZ.
I feel sorry for those underlings who have a gun pointed at their head and told to deliver this propaganda.
Or have they been fully indoctrinated ?
The only thing the Government can do is to dismantle the entire RNZ network and facilities.
It's all been replaced by internet delivery in the last few years.
When I heard this news of the 89 principals , I did wonder what proportion of the total that was . But then I heard that the 89 represents more of the lower decile schools.. Perhaps someone can clarify this.
Anyway their complaint was that higher decile (low equity number) , were too geared to academic subjects and tertiary institutions.
Further they complain that too many of low decile students would leave school with no qualifications at all. Well if you consider credits in coffee making , bush walking or similar fine , as a credible qualification yet the student lacks competency in literacy or numeracy then you are out of touch with employers and tradespeople ie the wider world, who are demanding these basic things .
My view is that numeracy and literacy should be assessed in upper primary since it is crazy that secondary teachers should be burdened with this . Australia has the naplan tests in upper primary.
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