from DailyTelegraph.co.nz
The Government will remove the legal requirement for school boards to “give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi,” saying it is unfair to expect parent volunteers to uphold Crown obligations under the Treaty.
Education Minister Erica Stanford said boards should focus on improving attendance and achievement rather than interpreting constitutional responsibilities, arguing the 2020 clause had not improved Māori student outcomes.
Her legislation, now before Parliament, will replace the clause with a directive for boards to ensure equitable outcomes for Māori learners and support teaching in te reo Māori when requested.
The move follows political debate and criticism from lobby group Hobson’s Pledge, while opposition parties say the change “weakens accountability” for addressing disparities in Māori education.
Now is the time for parents to let their Board of Trustees what they want for their children’s schools and not what the leftist teachers. TPM and Labour Party want.
Thank god sanity prevails. I was worried for my grandchildren who incidentally are part Maori! Two are (Ngati Pouru) and one Ngati Ngapuhi and none of them at this stage of their lives wanted to learn Te Reo and were also confused as to why they were basically forced to learn all about the Treaty Etc. I have told the oldest two the truth about NZ history from my schooling days and in later years what I have read from old history books. As the two oldest grandson’s said they would sooner learn Japanese or Chinese to get ahead into todays world. Not a made up language and a made up mouth to mouth history indoctrinated with racism hate and lies. All the grandchildren are born to my sons (European) and mother’s now both divorced of Maori descent.
We have many indicators on how to get equity in schools from current overseas examples and our history. Low socio-economic children particularly need the traditional values , content, discipline and methods we used to have in schools, before progressive education took over many decades ago under Fraser and Beeby. Katherine Burbalsinghe ‘s school in London is the most dramatic model for this . She has children from impoverished backgrounds achieving academically as well as those from prestigious Eton College.