A parent in New Zealand recently discovered that their child had been reciting prayers (karakia) to Māori gods five times a day at a standard state school. Not a kura. Not a Māori immersion school. A regular taxpayer-funded school that is, by law, supposed to be secular.
When that parent tried to have their child excused, they were made to ask - repeatedly - before being granted what should have been an obvious right from the start.
