Let’s be VERY clear.
Erica Stanford’s changes to the curriculum is dangerously racist and a deep disservice to our students, parents and teachers.
By adding unreachable education targets in the curriculum, she is setting public schools up to fail so that they are ripe for the kind of 3rd party hostile charter school takeovers we are seeing at Kelston Boys.
By focusing only in time stressed testing of students to answer quick fire questions, we are manufacturing failure to ensure worker drones, not critical thinking citizens.
But it gets worse.
I think the most important part of this story is who is advising the Minister and what are the 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 and remove the Treaty obligations for schools 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.
The Atlas Network know that any indigenous perspective in public education creates students who are hostile to resource exploitation.
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 while removing the Treaty, 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 horse acting in the interests of extreme advocates.
None of this is being explained to the public.
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Sound like Rata is full of sh*t
Look out kids you will be beaten for using Te Reo at school next year .
Great government you squashed middle idiots elected .
Beats me that a minister whose qualification is in Political science have the authority to organise the new curriculum? The gift of her gab is inversely proportional to her level of knowledge. I acknowledge that she can speak well and present herself well BUT that should not be enough to allow her to sell her dangerous ideas to the public. Teachers and educators are outraged and frustrated.
Kia ora Martyn, you are right that this needs much more attention. I’ve worked hard to explain all these links here https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/the-imported-ideology-behind-education-reform/