It struck me yesterday when I read Roger Gray's speech, Roger Gray of Auckland Port. When he talked of “No Zealand”, of the naysayers, of the cruise people in Miami and their view of NZ not wanting a cruise industry. Of Jacinda Ardern calling them Petrie dishes.
Where were the Roger Grays when she was actually in charge and wrecking the place?
The educators are bold enough to tell the current government they don’t like what's going on, but where was the business community when their companies were being shafted?
In the prizes for gonads and backbone, the educators win hands down.
Not that they are right of course, and in that is the gargantuan irony. The educators complain about rules and change and yet are irrefutably on the wrong side of history, given the education outcomes produced in this country.
And yet business was nowhere to be seen or heard, despite the fact we all knew the country was being strangled by power freaks, and they would eventually be proved right.
But as much as I defend an educator's right to speak up, there is something deeply insidious about the way educators, particularly unions, operate.
The list, the signatories of principals who have signed this protest to the Education Minister over the curriculum change is driven by, the Education Minister told us, unions.
And it’s a standover tactic. It’s an intimidatory play. You are bullied and harried and cajoled into signing, hence she claims, you then ring her up and tell her you signed reluctantly.
That sadly, says something about a principal that acts out of fear – sort of like businesses hating the decisions but saying nothing.
Fear is no way to live, but for some I get it: life is short, who needs the grief?
But if that is the mentality in education, if that is the modus operandi of unions, what sort of world are our kids entering into? What sort of brain washing, whether overt or subliminal, do our kids get subjected to?
The Minster, in telling us all this on Tuesday, said it is disgusting – anyone want to disagree?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
In the prizes for gonads and backbone, the educators win hands down.
Not that they are right of course, and in that is the gargantuan irony. The educators complain about rules and change and yet are irrefutably on the wrong side of history, given the education outcomes produced in this country.
And yet business was nowhere to be seen or heard, despite the fact we all knew the country was being strangled by power freaks, and they would eventually be proved right.
But as much as I defend an educator's right to speak up, there is something deeply insidious about the way educators, particularly unions, operate.
The list, the signatories of principals who have signed this protest to the Education Minister over the curriculum change is driven by, the Education Minister told us, unions.
And it’s a standover tactic. It’s an intimidatory play. You are bullied and harried and cajoled into signing, hence she claims, you then ring her up and tell her you signed reluctantly.
That sadly, says something about a principal that acts out of fear – sort of like businesses hating the decisions but saying nothing.
Fear is no way to live, but for some I get it: life is short, who needs the grief?
But if that is the mentality in education, if that is the modus operandi of unions, what sort of world are our kids entering into? What sort of brain washing, whether overt or subliminal, do our kids get subjected to?
The Minster, in telling us all this on Tuesday, said it is disgusting – anyone want to disagree?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
2 comments:
Bull. Lux rejected Seymour's Treaty Principles bill. Lux says there are principles; he just doesn't know what they are, other than not being ACT's ones. Peters says there are no principles. Its a dog's breakfast. Given Lux has no clue about what our courts say must comprise fundamental constitutional law, how can Lux, his Education Minister or DJ Mike Hosking have a clue themselves about whether schools are upholding the actual law of the land regarding the Treaty or not? You are the crew who created this farce so stop complaining about it.
I don't know what ideologies lie behind the business world but clearly they are not t as entrenched ,dogmatic or as well represented as those controlling education.
The teacher unions are undeniably Marxist and they have almost the entirety of academia behind them. Therefore they stand strong with all that support . Clever clogs at the ivory towers will articulately defend their stance since they are on the same page as the unions.
The unions , however are on a sinking ship because Joe Citizen is aware they are not one bit interested in children's achieving academically . Then there is Paulo Freire, who has written the handbook promoting progressivism and Marxism called "Pedagogy
of the Oppressive '. Maori are the oppressed, now , and need to have the unions fight for them and their lovely alternative culture to Western Culture.
That Maori , in fact , would be best served and less 'oppressed' by being taught effectively is something the educational elite can't accept.
Of greater importance for them is the promoting of Marxism whose main aim is the destruction of Western Culture .
This is the main agenda and always has been to Progressive education but because it was introduced ever so subtlely decades ago few were aware of this early on. Now surely it is blatantly obvious.
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