The Government’s NZ history curriculum threatens to indoctrinate students in left-wing ideas about colonialism, the welfare state, gender identity, and ‘cultural appropriation’.
The draft New Zealand history curriculum, out for consultation until 31 May, requires students to learn a narrow set of highly political stories from our past.
Jacinda Ardern promised a history curriculum that would promote a ‘better New Zealand that we can all be proud of and which recognises the value of every New Zealander’. The draft curriculum’s ‘three big ideas’ completely fail to achieve that.
One of the big ideas, that ‘Māori history is the continuous history of Aotearoa New Zealand’, excludes most New Zealanders from its narrative.
Another, that ‘colonisation and its consequences continue to influence all aspects of New Zealand society’, is dismal, depressing, and incorrect, casting some groups as villains and others as victims.
Not only that, the draft curriculum pushes left-wing narratives about the welfare state, gender identity, and ‘cultural appropriation’.
It leaves out or brushes over economic and constitutional change, New Zealand’s role in international relations, and many other issues.
ACT says the New Zealand history curriculum should be radically redrafted to give an honest and inclusive account of who the New Zealand people are.
If students are to be taught New Zealand history, they deserve an honest account of who we are as a nation.
Roger Dewhurst said:
Adding to Goebels comments on lying often enough, one might add that with children lying may not need to be so frequent.
hyden said:
human mind Just like computers….garbage data in, garbage out.
thus creating false reality’s
Roger Childs said:
A neat, succinct summary of what’s wrong with the proposed NZ History curriculum. This element of the wider He Puapua strategy is arguably the most important – the indoctrination of our future citizens. Fundamentally our young people, who are over 83% non-Maori, deserve a balanced, comprehensive and accurate coverage of our country’s story. If you haven’t done so, put in a submission – you have until May 31.
BDBinc said:
This political history( along way for truth) is just indoctrination. Its the UN’s agenda the govt is pushing.
Gender switched with “sexual preference”.. (And only one group runs around with gay pride). Most of top level of NZ parliament is LBGT or sexually deviant.
Racism( the anti white movement)
The suggestion of pedophilia grooming with teaching masturbation and promoting homosexuality and dysphoria in primary school.
Teaching Racism. The truth is the Crown is seeking to blame (indigenous) white people in NZ that were not even alive during colonization for the Crown’s past actions which is utterly ludicrous.
They have now created an apartheid NZ.With separate health funding for Maori .
The history of NZ is different to what is taught by the Crown and its partners.