by Selwyn Barron
Just today, 25 May 2021, at a supermarket I presented three boxes of eight bottles of soft drink. A sample bottle was scanned and then I asked the teenager checkout person how many bottles were there in three boxes of eight bottles. “Eight- sixteen—-” then had a discussion with two teenage colleagues — each blank and embarrassed. Momentarily I was shocked — then I was sad — then I was mad! I assured them it was not their fault and that they had been sadly let down by New Zealand’s education system. What a damning indictment of the Ministry of Education. What an example of child neglect!
Selwyn I’m surprised you’re surprised, after all our education system is all about essential things like gender diversity, white privilege, te reo, the sudden impending death of the earth from man made global warning etc…..Lets face it in our brave new world of kindness and absolute political correctness, what use is reading, writing,
arithmetic and science?
A poor education? All the better for a corrupt government to control them.