Well the Auditor-General has just revealed:
Haeata Community Campus School paid $18,500 for a trip to Queenstown for professional coaching and wellbeing for its senior leadership team but did not provide enough evidence that all the spending had a clear business purpose.
Almost $20,000 on a trip to Queenstown for school senior leaders. What a great use of taxpayer money. Think of many school lunches that could have paid for. They spent $3,000 per SLT member on “coaching and wellbeing”.
Of the $18,000, $6,000 was on meals, drinks, and tourist activities in Queenstown according to Chris Lynch. That is $1,000 each. That’s a lot of wellbeing!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
6 comments:
Look in the bright side at least the money stayed in New Zealand and wasn’t spent in say…Queensland
What I meant to say was….rort/crooks/ scoundrels….
Entitled, and no sense of responsibility for either money, nor the welfare of their students.
Having spent up on the taxpayers, are they any wiser having learnt responsibility at these " trading " sessions?
Or have they just learned how far they can push it obtaining tax funds for nebulous purposes ?
Keep up the great work David. I'm really sick of funding the toxic left. Do you think ird will refund my portion of tax money for all the lefts stupid wastage? Tax payers money on junkets, leaving do's, dance classes, super rugby teams, racist university classes, biased far left msm, playing whale music to trees. I'm thinking of withholding tax funding.....perhaps we all should .....
Assuming they have significant trace maori students, the vital skill many will most benefit from in the modern NZ world is the art of milking state sources of funds fon false pretext for dubious application. The trip seems to have provided useful training.for the teachers.
All covered on the Platform by Michael Laws in his very able articulate way. Seems the school is very low decile (!?) One supposedly producrive thing they did in Queenstown was vist a Decile 10 school. Laws mocked the relavance but maybe if the staff had spent their lives in Dec 1 environments they may actually have learned somethong.. like the effect of applied student effort, the disruption due preoccupatin with matters maori etc etc.
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