A-Dub 🥝more anti-Māori racist nonsense from the conservative coalition government of New Zealand
"Education union NZEI Te Riu Roa is questioning why the consultation period on a draft Māori curriculum is only half as long as its English counterpart."
NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛Jodie is a highly respected professor of teaching mathematics. Jodie understands every aspect of pedagogy & assessment.
Stanford, with a BA in Pols, doesn’t even under how NCEA works.
Listen to Jodie. #nzpol #nzed
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Urgh. Stanford now othering our disabled ākonga 😒😒😒
#nzed #MoronsInCharge #nzpol
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A-Dub 🥝this is 100% colonial bullshit - MĀORI IS ONE OF THREE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF NEW ZEALAND
"A sudden law change means the only legal obligation for schools to teach te reo Māori is if parents ask for it."
this is surely a worse idea than properly resourcing public schools to provide education that is genuinely inclusive of autistic students? 🤨
"History teachers have slammed the [conservative coalition] government's proposal to water down the teaching of New Zealand history in schools with the study of topics including Ancient Egypt and the French Revolution.
... the NZ History Teachers Association said the draft social sciences curriculum was overcrowded, lacked focus and ignored the input of its representative in the curriculum-writing process.
The draft included history content that would replace the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum.
That curriculum was centred on Māori history as the continuous and central factor in New Zealand history, and was targeted for "rebalancing" by the National-ACT coalition agreement."
"The [NZ] government’s latest overhaul of the primary maths curriculum has triggered an unusually united backlash from academics & teachers. In an open letter published this week, 44 maths experts warned the newly rewritten curriculum seemed “more political than educational”, “unfair to teachers” & “potentially damaging to learners”, ... it contained multiple errors & an “unrealistic number of learning objectives”, including 86 for Year 1 students alone – almost 3 times the previous number and far beyond comparable international curricula."
damn straight 🎯
"The release of draft primary and intermediate school curriculums has prompted a revolt by the Principals Federation, and criticism from some subject associations.
Critics say the draft curriculum documents for six learning areas published overnight are old fashioned, sideline Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori knowledge, and appear to be written by foreign contractors rather than by New Zealanders." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577212/just-absolutely-ridiculous-new-school-curriculum-unpopular-with-principals
"For half a century, our public education system has been hailed as world-leading. International recognition praised our system for being increasingly adaptive to the needs of tamariki, their whānau and communities, shifting in response like a braided river over our diverse landscape.
We developed a child-centred system focused on a broad education. Māori have led the way in kaupapa Māori education and kōhanga reo, and both our early childhood and primary curriculums have had global influence.
Why now, are we being asked to channel this river, to narrow it in accordance with the values and power systems of other colonial countries?"
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/the-imported-ideology-behind-education-reform/
the conservative coalition government of New Zealand has announced a number of new secondary school subjects and new emphases on AI and STEM.
But one high school principal says the changes means "we could be looking at privatisation by stealth". She's not wrong to be worried.
