Education Minister cut Māori words from future junior books, documents reveal
Education Minister Erica Stanford has imposed a near total ban on Māori in new additions to a series of books used to teach five-year-olds to read.
I think the most important part of this story is the why this is happening, who is advising and what are their interests being served.
Erica Stanford is an amazing salesperson, but who has designed what she is selling?
The decision to ban all Māori words for under 5s is being driven by advisers who have been caught quoting some pretty questionable race ideology.
Who are the advisers of Erica’s purge on Māori words in ?
TDBs educational blogger Allan Alach makes the point..
The education of our pre-school children is at risk, in danger of being dumbed down to meet Atlas Network goals.
…the mainstream media are refusing to even acknowledge any of the back ground advisers for Stanford in making this decision.
Let’s not forget that Elizabeth Rata was appointed despite Ministry recommendations.
Rata rails against the “Learning Approach” and decolonisation, the “political agenda to transform New Zealand”.
…why are we allowing these priorities literally banish Māori out of our children’s books?
When you have an educational activist working against ‘decolonisation’s success’, (her words not mine) surely alarm bells should be ringing?
The Minister’s defence that removing Māori words from books for under 5s is a phonetics decision and not an attack on the Māori language would sound believable if she hadn’t appointed an extremist to do this exact outcome.
Right Wing International think tanks like the Atlas Network are openly hostile to indigenous rights because the Atlas Network are funded by those constantly stealing indigenous land and assets.
We have right wing educational activists with links to NZ think tanks who are connected to the Atlas Network, and they are advising the Minister on policy that will over time censor all Māori words in books for those under 5, purposely making it more difficult to connect to the indigenous identity because they consider that identity is too politicised.
This is a carefully constructed and well camouflaged trojan hose acting in the interests of extreme advocates.
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Sounds like Stanford and co would be down with “strapping” the maori language out of our schools again.
This is such a racist anti-education croc of shit. Everyone knows it’s easier for a 5 year old to pick up a second language than a 13 year old.
In Europe what age do school children start learning a second or third language?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_12_990
In France kids learn second languages in pre-school.
Joseph, kids learning second languages in preschool is not the same as learning Māori words in English text. Just because I understand words like café and menu doesn’t mean I speak French. If this country bothered to have compulsory Māori at school (which to its shame it never has), Erica Stanford would not be an issue. Consequently we are arguing about chucking Māori into English text as if that was somehow useful.
Maori in a English text in NZ is a no brainer.
Instead of saying we are going to the Marae to see some Kapa Haka, we will have to say we are going to the building on the natives land to some of their war dancing.
What a crock of shit.
French you say…
“The Ecole Francaise Internationale Auckland would enrol primary and secondary school students and offer an Agency for French Education Abroad-accredited education.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535766/french-school-among-five-new-charter-schools-on-way-for-2025
Well, you are helping to pay (a lot more than usual for primary education) for some kiddies to become bilingual in year one at a Charter School.
A Charter School which will be exempt from the OIA.
Anyone else notice the hypocrisy of our Education Minister?
Te reo is phonics but words like “foreigner ” are not, stupid, lying-ass Erica.
Plaza
Stadium
Conference
Colosseum
Hobbiton
Commons
Agora
Hall
Symposium
Parliament
White House
Cathedral
Palace
Theatre
Vatican
Restaurant
Monastery
THE Knesset …
BUT , NO NO NO
wharenui or marae … too hard, too threatening for Erica and cohorts!
“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them,” Erasmus of Rotterdam- 1509.
Absolutely right O’Toole and let us look at names we use everyday.
Your own O’Toole (Celtic). Steven (Greek) Basil(Greek) Mark(Greek) David(Hebrew) Gerald(Norman French) Martyn(Celtic from Latin).
But evidently we cannot be Rawiri, Matini or Tipene.
Actually Maori is pure bred whereas English is a mongrel.
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