By reading the responses by the New Zealand Principals’ Federation, the NZ Educational Institute (teachers and principals union) and the New Zealand School Boards Association, it is obvious to everyone that, yes, they did ask themselves that question but the answer they arrived at did not fall on the side of “to educate”, no, no!
And they are proud to tell you so.
Principals Federation president Leanne Otene claims the clause was the government’s means of giving effect to its treaty obligations in schools and without it, Māori content was in danger.
Otene says “It’s through schools that the government can ensure that they’ve put in place their mechanisms by which to honour the treaty.”
Adding “Our tamariki Māori have a right to learn about their histories, hear their language and experience their culture. Schools will be pressured by extremists to delete Māori from the curriculum in the school programmes."
A question for Leanne Otene: Has not the opposite been happening over many years with pressure from Maori extremists being responsible for flooding our education system with tikanga, mātauranga Māori, te reo Māori and skewed Maori history, to the extent that it is now at such a level it is detrimental to the education and learning that equips and empowers children to succeed in the world?
Teachers and principals union the Educational Institute, the union that labels itself “The most powerful education union in Aotearoa” then grabbed their time in the spotlight claiming the change was the latest in a series of attacks on the education system.
“We’ve seen the removal of te reo from early readers, the slashing of Te Ahu o te Reo funding, cutting resource teachers Māori and now the removal of the clause for school boards to give effect to Te Tiriti – this paints a pretty clear picture of a government intent on the demotion of Te Tiriti in education and across our society.”
“…intent on the demotion of Te Tiriti in education and across our society” Have you ever heard such rubbish? Of course we have!
Those are just lines from the Maori Victims playbook, the Maori Sovereignty playbook, regularly chanted by the sovereignty “worker ants” that have been indoctrinated and politicised during their time in academia.
Maori Sovereignty activists are determined to get as much ideological brainwashing fallacies favourable to them into our education system, indoctrinating our children with propaganda favourable to there cause.
New Zealand School Boards Association, this is the group who, no doubt proudly, are behind a letter that, most New Zealand schools board of trustees have sent to each schools parents.
The letters are sent on each schools letter head and state – “The “XYZ” Board of Trustees wishes to reiterate that the Te Tiriti is and will remain, an essential part of our schools governance and leadership. The government’s decision in this matter does not align with our values or the vision we hold for our Tamariki and our community”
My understanding is that the school boards of trustees are breaking the law if they changed the curriculum but they are able to ignore government legislation that removes the requirement for school boards to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi???
Have a look at New Zealand School Boards Association https://www.tewhakaroputanga.org.nz/ and it is very plain to see their political leanings and where their allegiances lie!
Any group accountable for managing public services such as health, broadcasting and in this case, education, must be seen to be totally impartial and politically non-aligned. This grouping are allowing their political ideology to supersede their core responsibilities!
The president of Te Whakarōpūtanga Kaitiaki Kura o Aotearoa – New Zealand School Boards Association, Meredith Kennett, said the change would undermine the legal and practical standing of school boards as Crown entities and risked damaging wider social cohesion, “To understand attendance and achievement statistics for rangatahi Māori, you have to understand our history – and that includes Te Tiriti.”
“That understanding leads to more practical, effective, and inclusive school policies.”
What the hell does that virtue signalling, political word salad mean???
Now there is a newcomer to the “usual suspects” in educational activism and commentary and make no mistake this is no White Knight riding to the rescue of educational standards and common sense, oh, no, while this group has a similar agenda to the three aforementioned agitators, these guys care little about education, their agenda has a much loftier prize in its sights!
They are The National Iwi Chairs Forum!
The Iwi Chairs Forum, using children’s education, are exhibiting just how far their dangerous and influential tentacles are now reaching into society because they now have instituted a new appendage, “The education group of the National Iwi Chairs Forum.”
This “education group” of the National Iwi Chairs Forum declares they are concerned and disappointed by the government’s decision.
The National Iwi Chairs Forum with support from the coalition of national education organisations, the very group you would expect to truly have our children’s education foremost in their thoughts and actions, has launched a petition against the government’s removal of the requirement for school boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. “We’re launching this petition to send a clear message to the Government: removing Te Tiriti from education law undermines your responsibility to ensure every learner, Māori and non-Māori, thrives in an education system that honours the Māori-Crown relationship.”
Do these people who populate national education organisations and in the case of local school boards of trustees, who have been elected by their communities to ensure children leave school equipped to face the world, do they ever stop to think they could be failing their children? Probably not!
Do they ever stop to think their employers are the government? Probably not!
All these words of reproach and condemnation have absolutely nothing to do with education, have nothing to do with concern for our children’s future, they don’t even have anything to do with the treaty!
But they everything to do with Maori Sovereignty!
Maori Sovereignty activists are refusing to concede a little of their hard-won power! Power that has taken decades to achieve. Power that has been achieved by the infiltration of key areas of society such as universities, the judiciary, the MSM and the unions.
The indoctrination of the precept of indigeneity loss, the trauma of colonisation and most the commonly employed, the failure to uphold Crown “obligations” of the treaty have been sown deeply within those and similar organisations.
And, of course ably assisted by weak governments that thought appeasement would suffice!
So many New Zealanders are now absolutely wearied of hearing the repetitious mantra from Maori leaders and their acolytes of “Treaty Obligations” and “Not Honouring the Treaty.” If we fulfil any more treaty obligations and if we do any more honouring of the treaty, not only will the country be bankrupt but will have passed control of the country wholly and completely to Maori Elite!
Maori activists have a powerful two-handed grip around the throat of the nation. We need a government that will begin to pry away those hands, one finger at a time!
I contend that the New Zealand Principals’ Federation along with the NZ Educational Institute and the New Zealand School Boards Association see themselves as noble and assertive political activists.
I believe they prove that by their actions.
Under the new changes instituted by the government, school boards still retain the ability to teach as much tikanga, mātauranga Māori, and te reo Māori as they choose!
So, what are they actually complaining about? Where are the treaty obligations being dishonoured? How is Maori content now in danger?
Their claims are fictitious!
Their actions are designed to create headlines, designed to incite anger and frustration with claims of the treaty not being honoured. They may even be able to be accused of allowing their organisations to be pawns of larger “actors”!
Their role and that is to ensure every pupil receives an education that best prepares them for life.
Their ideology and anti-government views are usurping the importance of that role!
Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE
Principals Federation president Leanne Otene claims the clause was the government’s means of giving effect to its treaty obligations in schools and without it, Māori content was in danger.
Otene says “It’s through schools that the government can ensure that they’ve put in place their mechanisms by which to honour the treaty.”
Adding “Our tamariki Māori have a right to learn about their histories, hear their language and experience their culture. Schools will be pressured by extremists to delete Māori from the curriculum in the school programmes."
A question for Leanne Otene: Has not the opposite been happening over many years with pressure from Maori extremists being responsible for flooding our education system with tikanga, mātauranga Māori, te reo Māori and skewed Maori history, to the extent that it is now at such a level it is detrimental to the education and learning that equips and empowers children to succeed in the world?
Teachers and principals union the Educational Institute, the union that labels itself “The most powerful education union in Aotearoa” then grabbed their time in the spotlight claiming the change was the latest in a series of attacks on the education system.
“We’ve seen the removal of te reo from early readers, the slashing of Te Ahu o te Reo funding, cutting resource teachers Māori and now the removal of the clause for school boards to give effect to Te Tiriti – this paints a pretty clear picture of a government intent on the demotion of Te Tiriti in education and across our society.”
“…intent on the demotion of Te Tiriti in education and across our society” Have you ever heard such rubbish? Of course we have!
Those are just lines from the Maori Victims playbook, the Maori Sovereignty playbook, regularly chanted by the sovereignty “worker ants” that have been indoctrinated and politicised during their time in academia.
Maori Sovereignty activists are determined to get as much ideological brainwashing fallacies favourable to them into our education system, indoctrinating our children with propaganda favourable to there cause.
New Zealand School Boards Association, this is the group who, no doubt proudly, are behind a letter that, most New Zealand schools board of trustees have sent to each schools parents.
The letters are sent on each schools letter head and state – “The “XYZ” Board of Trustees wishes to reiterate that the Te Tiriti is and will remain, an essential part of our schools governance and leadership. The government’s decision in this matter does not align with our values or the vision we hold for our Tamariki and our community”
My understanding is that the school boards of trustees are breaking the law if they changed the curriculum but they are able to ignore government legislation that removes the requirement for school boards to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi???
Have a look at New Zealand School Boards Association https://www.tewhakaroputanga.org.nz/ and it is very plain to see their political leanings and where their allegiances lie!
Any group accountable for managing public services such as health, broadcasting and in this case, education, must be seen to be totally impartial and politically non-aligned. This grouping are allowing their political ideology to supersede their core responsibilities!
The president of Te Whakarōpūtanga Kaitiaki Kura o Aotearoa – New Zealand School Boards Association, Meredith Kennett, said the change would undermine the legal and practical standing of school boards as Crown entities and risked damaging wider social cohesion, “To understand attendance and achievement statistics for rangatahi Māori, you have to understand our history – and that includes Te Tiriti.”
“That understanding leads to more practical, effective, and inclusive school policies.”
What the hell does that virtue signalling, political word salad mean???
Now there is a newcomer to the “usual suspects” in educational activism and commentary and make no mistake this is no White Knight riding to the rescue of educational standards and common sense, oh, no, while this group has a similar agenda to the three aforementioned agitators, these guys care little about education, their agenda has a much loftier prize in its sights!
They are The National Iwi Chairs Forum!
The Iwi Chairs Forum, using children’s education, are exhibiting just how far their dangerous and influential tentacles are now reaching into society because they now have instituted a new appendage, “The education group of the National Iwi Chairs Forum.”
This “education group” of the National Iwi Chairs Forum declares they are concerned and disappointed by the government’s decision.
The National Iwi Chairs Forum with support from the coalition of national education organisations, the very group you would expect to truly have our children’s education foremost in their thoughts and actions, has launched a petition against the government’s removal of the requirement for school boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. “We’re launching this petition to send a clear message to the Government: removing Te Tiriti from education law undermines your responsibility to ensure every learner, Māori and non-Māori, thrives in an education system that honours the Māori-Crown relationship.”
Do these people who populate national education organisations and in the case of local school boards of trustees, who have been elected by their communities to ensure children leave school equipped to face the world, do they ever stop to think they could be failing their children? Probably not!
Do they ever stop to think their employers are the government? Probably not!
All these words of reproach and condemnation have absolutely nothing to do with education, have nothing to do with concern for our children’s future, they don’t even have anything to do with the treaty!
But they everything to do with Maori Sovereignty!
Maori Sovereignty activists are refusing to concede a little of their hard-won power! Power that has taken decades to achieve. Power that has been achieved by the infiltration of key areas of society such as universities, the judiciary, the MSM and the unions.
The indoctrination of the precept of indigeneity loss, the trauma of colonisation and most the commonly employed, the failure to uphold Crown “obligations” of the treaty have been sown deeply within those and similar organisations.
And, of course ably assisted by weak governments that thought appeasement would suffice!
So many New Zealanders are now absolutely wearied of hearing the repetitious mantra from Maori leaders and their acolytes of “Treaty Obligations” and “Not Honouring the Treaty.” If we fulfil any more treaty obligations and if we do any more honouring of the treaty, not only will the country be bankrupt but will have passed control of the country wholly and completely to Maori Elite!
Maori activists have a powerful two-handed grip around the throat of the nation. We need a government that will begin to pry away those hands, one finger at a time!
I contend that the New Zealand Principals’ Federation along with the NZ Educational Institute and the New Zealand School Boards Association see themselves as noble and assertive political activists.
I believe they prove that by their actions.
Under the new changes instituted by the government, school boards still retain the ability to teach as much tikanga, mātauranga Māori, and te reo Māori as they choose!
So, what are they actually complaining about? Where are the treaty obligations being dishonoured? How is Maori content now in danger?
Their claims are fictitious!
Their actions are designed to create headlines, designed to incite anger and frustration with claims of the treaty not being honoured. They may even be able to be accused of allowing their organisations to be pawns of larger “actors”!
Their role and that is to ensure every pupil receives an education that best prepares them for life.
Their ideology and anti-government views are usurping the importance of that role!
Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE
4 comments:
Once I would have scoffed at full Māori control of NZ by 2040, but certainly not now. The country is in a downward spiral to apartheid by continuing down the path of Māori only handouts and lesser qualifications for entry into educational institutions, as examples.
Thank you for your excellent article exposing the grip that the racist separatists have got on our education and our nation as a whole.
As you say:- "Maori activists have a powerful two-handed grip around the throat of the nation. We need a government that will begin to pry away those hands, one finger at a time!"
Truly - New Zealand society has been the slow boiled frog for many years now !!
Pre war, even in the remotest all maori areas, schools attained acheivement and attendance standards superior to the present. This despite the teachers knowing almost nothing about true maori history and even less about the treaty. And the students were not pemritted to use obsoletes stone age language at school.. Whether they realise it or not, for much employment a clealry maori Billy T mode of speech is a handicap, yet same is integral to true te reo.
Now these people have identified themselves, it is time some corrective action was initiated and followed through on. If parents care about their children's future, they should make their voices heard and to hell with potential 'utu' as once these people are out of the equation the kids may stand a chance. Of course, this will never happen in New Zealand. The indoctrination will continue unabated. It is frankly time that our politicians realise a salient fact, just saying is or will be so does not make it so!
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