Kerre Woodham: Back to the future with specialist schools for complex needs

I've always understood the theory behind mainstreaming. We're all different, we all have different abilities, different attitudes, and a classroom of individuals with diverse personalities and levels of learning prepares young people for the real world. You're not among your own kind once you leave school and enter the workplace, enter the community. Mainstreaming means that kids who are different physically, intellectually, socially, aren't siloed or separated or marginalised. They're part of the wider school community and if they need extra time or attention, well in an ideal classroom, the teacher gladly offers it and the other students make space, accepting that some people need more resources than others.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 14/6/24

Favours announced to foster a flourishing forestry sector – and we get a measure of the axing of public service jobs

The Government continued the flow of good news to the country’s primary producers during a busy 24 hours for the Beehive press team.

It was the forestry sector’s turn to savour announcements intended to enable it to flourish.